The New York Times’s front page on Jan. 7, 2021, was designed to convey the substance and magnitude of the event.
The style of the headline is the largest in our hierarchy of headline forms, reflecting the importance and singularity of the news. The top line is scaled to dominate the page, deliberately made taller and longer than what is typically the largest typographic element on the page, the newspaper’s nameplate. This style of headline is reserved for the most significant news stories...
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Our typically reserved presentation for normal news days is intentionally measured so that the outsize significance of the news from a day like Jan. 6, 2021, appears in fittingly stark contrast.
