Page Layouting

Hanna Gelle
Angelo Basa
Page Design
• Page design is the arrangement of
illustrations and types on a page or
spreadsheet which is to be reproduced
graphically. Makeup is a happy marriage
of aesthetics and mechanics.
NEWSLETTER TYPE
FOR ELEMENTARY
( 3 columns)
• TABLOID TYPE
• FOR SECONDARY
• ( 5 columns)
Front Page Make up
by Headline
and Text arrangement
Symbols used for
Layouting

▫ Boxes for pictures/graphics

▫ Lines for headlines
▫ Arrows for texts/articles
1.Perfect Balance
or Symmetrical
Makeup
A one column-cut at the upper
2nd column is balanced with
another one column cut at
column 4. This kind of makeup
gives static monotonous
appearance to the paper. It
should not be made from issue
to issue.
Ex. A large headline placed in
the upper first two columns
of front page is balanced with
a corresponding large
headline in the 4th and fifth
upper columns. Other
headlines are similarly
arranged.
Perfect
Balance
or
Symmetrical
Makeup
2. Brace or Focus
Makeup
• Headlines are diagonally arranged
from the upper left to the lower right
hand corner or vice-versa just like a
brace supporting a house. Balance is
obtained by various devices such as
two column heads, boxes , and cuts
which are used to offset the weight
concentrated in the upper right of
upper left hand corner.
• This kind of makeup is desirable
when one story is more important
than any other because the readers
attention is directed to the upper
right hand corner or occasionally
to the upper left.
Brace or
Focus Makeup
3. Broken Column
Makeup
• The page is broken into several units
to give space to many stories.
Symmetry is obtained by carefully
arranging the contents so as not to
cancel each other by their nearness.
Large heads and cuts are placed
where they give the page a pleasing
pattern.
• This kind of makeup is developed
primarily to be able to print as many
short stories on page one as
possible.
Broken Column
Makeup
4. Contrast and
Balance Makeup
• This type groups are arranged at
varying distances from the center
like two boys on a see-saw. It is
sometimes called occult or hidden
balance because the type groups
with its headline may be balanced
with a picture, an illustration, or a
box., or instead of a type group.
• No attempt is made to achieve perfect
balance. This is one of the most popular
kinds of front page makeup since it
permits great variety from issue to issue.
Contrast

and Balance Makeup

5. Streamlined
Makeup
• The format is similar with that of the
contrast and balance makeup.
However, the nameplate is usually
floated, headlines are flushed up in
cap or lower case, and large body
types are often used. Many closely
cropped pictures are also used.
Instead of boxing stories in full, the
three quarter boxes are resorted to.
• Often bullets, asterisks, and jim dashes
are employed to introduce lead stories.
This kind of makeup is commonly used by
high school papers than by the national
dailies.
Streamlined
Makeup
Makeup by way of Text
and Photo Combination Layout
for Front page:
• The X Format
• The Curve Format
• The L Format
• The J Format
• The Umbrella Format
Makeup of Inside Pages:
• While it is true that the front page of the
newspaper is its show window, attractive
makeup should not be confined to this
page alone. The inside and back pages
should be given the same tender care,
treatment and attention by the layout
artist.
 For Inside News pages

• Inside news pages should be laid

out as facing page units rather
than as single pages. The
principles for contrast and
balance used for front page
makeup should also be
considered.
Editorial Pages
These pages should have a distinctive
dignified and formal appearance. The
masthead which should be relatively
small, may anchored on any corner.
Traditionally, the main editorial or
editorials appear in the fist two
columns. Like headlines of news
stories, the titles of editorials should be
of masculine appearance, not the italic
or script type.
Feature / Literary Pages
• These pages must have a feminine
appearance. The columns are often
wider. Roman and italic types are used
for text. Feminine types like the coronet,
mandate and liberty families may be
used.
These pages have bolder but livelier
appearance than the others. Their
makeup should suggest action,
speed and color. Large bold heads
are used.
Sports Pages
• These pages have bolder but livelier
appearance than the others. Their
makeup should suggest action, speed
and color. Large bold heads are used.