image HEADLINE TYPOGRAPHY

Modern newspaper design with its strength below the fold allows for a great variety of headline shape, especially in broadsheets. Pages these days consist of one-deck, one-thought headlines, as opposed to the multi-deck style once favoured, although sometimes a second deck is introduced. A deck of headline can consist of a number of lines of type depending on its width, or measure, and upon its shape and position in the page.

Shape

Single-column headlines are usually of two, three or four lines, although sometimes they can have as many as five or six if they have dominant end-column positions, or contain some particularly ...

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