Cristiano Ronaldo sells.
Babies sell.
Content-driven redesigns sell.
I am leaving Funchal this afternoon, and the number 1 of the new Diario de Noticias is sold out.
No papers dowtown.
No papers at the airport.
No papers in the newsroom of Diario de Noticias.
Everybody watend to keep extra copies of this collector’s issue and the last to arrive found that no more copies were available in the Diario de Noticias’ main headquarters.
A few copies were still at the printing facility.
Perhaps I will get some extra copies during my connecting flight in Lisbon.
The first reactions from readers are very interesting:
The new Diario de Noticias is clean, well-organized and easy to read …
My feeling is that the new typography is working very well.
Guillermo Nagore, who has a very strong book and magazine design background, has used these fonts:
Nameplate and navigation: Scout and Scout Condensed (Font Bureau). They were created for Entertainment Weekly but now are available, and Diario de Noticias is probably the first newspaper to use them.
Headlines: Miller Headline (Font Bureau). The paper had an older Miller before and keeping the Miller style makes the transition easier for readers.
Copy text: Mercury News (Hoefler and Frere-Jones)
Typography for the EXTRA magazine: Dispatch (Font Bureau).
Very elegant typography.
For a clean, not dirty, design.
