Posts Tagged “Sunday Times”

Interpreting Typefaces of Singapore’s Newspaper Nameplates

by j u s t i n . z on March 8, 2009

A few posts ago, I introduced the typefaces of Singapore’s English newspaper nameplates and who else uses them. This time, I’ll interpret them and see if they might mean anything at all! Barnhurst’s Seeing The Newspaper is a great book on visual (…)

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Typefaces of Singapore Newspaper Nameplates

by j u s t i n . z on February 25, 2009

Here’s a list of the nameplates of Singapore’s english newspapers and what typefaces they use. I’ve also included popular contemporary references that also use the same typeface, maybe the choice of usage says something about the paper? Typeface: Big Caslon (…)

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Redesigning newspapers and why it matters

by j u s t i n . z on February 14, 2009

One point, or approximately 0.04 cm, was all it took for readers to find the recently redesigned Sunday Times a comfortable read again. After its redesign in April 2008,several readers complained that it was hard to read the paper’s body copy (…)

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News values, your values, my values?

by j u s t i n . z on April 7, 2008

So The Sunday Times unveiled its redesign today and what made me completely flip wasn’t anything design-related but simply that its biggest story was about the fallout after the breakup badminton star, Ronald Susilo and his fiance, table tennis star, (…)

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