Cool: not one but two arguments against use of reverse type on the SAME day.

I designed the page on the right (The Virginian-Pilot, "Who did this?"). Yes, the fact that these pages turned out in similar fashion is a coincidence. A lot of front pages on big-news days look similar -- same headlines, same photos. Please fill me in. What is the argument against the use of reverse type?

Hey, Julie!

Just pointing out the freakiness of it. Same hed, similar use of reverse type, etc. Didn't mean to imply it wasn't a coincidence.

I'll let Tom speak for himself about the reverse type, but your page doesn't bother me on that front. It's a restrained use and much more successful than the other page. The cutline's short and the color of the top deck is a better contrast to the black.

Hi newsdesigner,

I saw a page on the newseum site on the day the Fallujah photos ran -- and, one paper (in Penn., I believe) ran this headline for that story: "Who did this?" (In this case, I think we have a better idea of the answer to that question.) I'm amazed at how different papers can have such different treatments for the same story -- and I am also amazed when papers have strikingly similar treatments. For a while, we had a bulletin board at The Pilot filled with pages (our paper paired up with another) that were nearly the same (headlines, visual treatment). It was eerie.

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