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A New Day in the Sun

2:25 AM, September 19, 2005

Thanks to the estimable Jay Judge, news design director at The Baltimore Sun, we have real, live pages from today's redesigned paper. Also, there's an online reader's guide to the redesign here (or a 10-page PDF here). And there's a QuickTime video of editors (and consultant Lucie Lacava) talking about the redesign here (or the audio version of same in convenient mp3 form here).

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Beautiful. USA Today, New York Times, The Gainesville Sun -- yes, my hometown newspaper -- they all need to learn from this.

Colors, font, looks: everything is nice and consistent.

Good work, B.

Posted by: Complex3 Designs at September 19, 2005 5:56 AM

It is nice but: The Sun is being blistered by readers online about the redesign. Interesting that several people have mentioned they would rather see the Sun add reporters and improve the content than redesign.

http://blogs.baltimoresun.com/about_sun_design/2005/09/sun_redesign.html

Posted by: Prospero at September 19, 2005 1:20 PM

The Mencken Text faces look too much like Monotype's Nimrod. I bet Porchez didn't know that he was inadvertently calling Mencken a nimrod!

The redesign is nice, but I'm still yet to be excited about the type in any recent redesign out there. Her'es Nimrod, and the new Guardian faces are basically butchered versions of Swift. Type designers can do better than this, no?

Great blog, by the way.

Posted by: Paul Sullivan at September 19, 2005 1:33 PM

WHY IS THE LEAD HEADLINE YELLING AT ME?

Posted by: ctr at September 19, 2005 9:19 PM

ALL CAPS seem to be trendy.
Perhaps newspapers fear no one is listening to us anymore.

You have to give it up for the ballsy risks they are taking. This isn't subtle.

How nice to see that some English-language newspapers (Guardian, Toronto, Balt Sun) are willing to have a "style" besides traditional and modular.

Posted by: Rich at September 19, 2005 11:57 PM

On a visual level, it's beautiful, pure Lacava all the way around.

That said, man is it extreme.

The phone calls and the negative messages eventually will end, and your product will be all the stronger for it.

I will say that I dislike the all-caps heads (some fonts work stronger with them, others don't), but you will eventually work the design and improve it to a fine point.

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