Design thread

The Red Sox story did not need a sub head. That's my only complaint.

 

Re: Design thread *updated 10/4*

The score line?

 

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No. There's a graf under the head, a lead-in sub head.

That's thoroughly unnecessary.

Newsday does the same thing, and I've found that it doesn't work. I don't have to read the story, simply because the lead-in sub head tells me exactly what happened. So, why read the story?

 

Re: Design thread *updated 10/4*

Ahhh!
Gotcha.

I think we all pretty much hate those.

 

Re: Design thread *updated 10/4*

I want to meet the guy that decided the lead-in sub head was a good idea. I want to know why he likes them and how he sold newspapers on them.

 

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It's the same thing I say about the unindented lead graf in some newspapers, hb.

I'd love to know how some design guru got that past the newsroom hard-liners.

 

Re: Design thread *updated 10/4*

Are you talking about in general? Or lead grafs with dropcaps? Because I'd never indent a dropcap.

 

Re: Design thread *updated 10/4*

The way they do it sucks like a ShopVac. Too many words.

 

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There are some great points in this topic. But something has been bothering me for a pretty long time now. We design sports (I am assuming). Sports is not the first thing you see in the rack. I have heard from SEs and fellow designers things like "above the fold." My question is to read the sports page you have to pull it out of the paper so why is there an emphasis for above the fold?

 

Re: Design thread *updated 10/4*

I always get my paper folded up. Then I flip through the sections until I get to sports. That means, I still only see the top half until I pull it out.

 

Re: Design thread *updated 10/4*

Oh, no. I'd never indent a dropcap either. And in those instances where you give datelines a "treatment," like a different font or something, I even think unindented lede grafs are OK there.

But look at the Baltimore redesign, for example. They just don't indent the lead graf. It looks chickenshit.

 

Re: Design thread *updated 10/4*

Then I agree wholeheartedly.