Two Of Us

Trying to copy one of the page designs I really liked proved more difficult that I'd anticipated - probably because I was trying to copy something exactly, rather than achieve an image in my head or from a rough draft- which is often less precise.

However, this exercise really made me think about the range of typefaces on what was, at first glance, a fairly uniform design. What has surprised me is that the copy has retained the beaury of the original. I was intersted in the extent to which the loss of the central image would affect the overall effect - the fact that the  page has, for me, lost none of its beauty suggests how much of  the appeal is attributable to the layout and the typefaces used - Baskerville (headline and body), Georgia Italics, and a sans typeface similar to Myriad (for captions).

What also sturck me was how many variables there are in just one page of a newspaper - three of four typefaces to select, column number and widths, how to justify the text, image placement, spacing of paragraphs, spacing of headlines and subheaders, etc.



Lorum Ipsum copy



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