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THE MONARCH'S NEW WINGS

12:02 PM, March 12, 2004

The San Francisco Examiner's new owner has given it a bit of a new look. Hard to tell from just a couple front pages, and I haven't seen it regularly in a while, but does it not look a bit like that Roger Black pre-Fang look? It looks like they've re-elevated Cheltenham back to a main display face rather than a subhed face. Maybe that's it. And the rules around the bylines.

You can see today's front page here. And if you hack the date in that URL, you can find a lot of others, too.

Update: Cavendish beat me to it by a few minutes at the Visual Editing board, but he agrees!

"It looks like they just went back to the Roger Black-era type and put it into a tab format."

He also posts a page from the 2002 redesign.

>San Francisco Examiner
>S.F. Examiner boosts its pages [San Francisco Chronicle]

Comments

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Well, as long as they keep the HUGE BLACK HEADLINES that make it impossible to say anything lucid. "Mastermind," my ass.

Posted by: Bill at March 12, 2004 3:48 PM

Objection seconded. It must be a real bitch to write headlines in that face for a tab.

Posted by: steve at March 12, 2004 9:05 PM

I am currently researching for my BA degree in Typography & Graphic Communication. My dissertation is entitled: 'Independent; from Broadsheet to tabloid'. I am planning to explore other newspapers that have followed suit & to inclued examples. Compare layout & typography decisions.

Do you have access to articles, presentations or research that could lead me in the right direction.

Any help would be very much appreciated

many thanks,

James

Posted by: james fooks-bale at August 31, 2004 2:44 AM

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