Typography makes the news

// January 4th, 2009 // diary

When something serious happens in the news…

News website headlines get big.

Maybe they think they’re still newspapers. Or they need to make words bigger to remind us how serious it all is.

Let’s look at some examples of how big letters add gravitas:

Israeli troops push deep into Gaza

Earthquake strikes Indonesia

Aliens land in Cotswolds

Lily Allen’s bra kidnapped by asylum seekers

…and new for June ‘09…

King of Pop Dead, World In Shock

4 Responses to “Typography makes the news”

  1. penelopeelse (Penelope Else) says:
    January 1 1970 at 12:59 am

    RT @nathanmnelson: New blog post: Typography makes the news http://tinyurl.com/7sj5ab

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  2. simonashley (Simon Ashley) says:
    January 1 1970 at 12:59 am

    RT @nathanmnelson: New blog post: Typography makes the news http://tinyurl.com/7sj5ab

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  3. Ms B Pedantic says:
    January 4 2009 at 9:55 pm

    Achewally, I think you mean font sizes, not typography. If they used more interesting typography, the content might not matter as much. http://new.myfonts.com/

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    • Nathan says:
      January 4 2009 at 10:04 pm

      Thank you Ms Pedantic. Actually typography might be used to describe font sizing if web site style sheets are set up separately to cover different design elements i.e. layout, colours, graphics, and typography, which would manage font sizes as well as font faces. But I get your point.

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