For New York's Adam Moss, Good Things Come in Small Point Sizes
What’s the secret to surviving in the rapidly shrinking world of print media? Very tiny type. New York magazine has taken to sprinkling its cover with ultrasmall headlines akin to those wee quotations that sneak their way onto the front of Vanity Fair. John Koblin, writing in this week’s New York Observer, describes the point size as “somewhere between the size of a grain of sugar and a grain of kosher salt.”
After the cover line, the rest is “garnish,” according to New York editor-in-chief Adam Moss, and readers’ palettes are far too sophisticated for the design equivalent of parsley:
“There’s a certain texturing,” he said.
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