Magazine Editorial Blog

Create a magazine-style editorial blog with refined typography and reading-focused design, inspired by premium publications like The New Yorker or Monocle.

Design Requirements

Typography First: This design lives and dies by its typography

- Headings: Playfair Display (serif), large and bold

- Body: Source Serif 4 (serif), optimal reading size (18-20px), line-height: 1.8

- Maximum reading width: 680px for body text

Color Palette: Mostly black-and-white with one accent color (#dc2626) for links and highlights

Layout: Asymmetric magazine-style grid for the homepage, narrow single-column for article pages

Sections to Include

Homepage

Masthead — Centered publication name in elegant serif, thin nav links

Featured Article — Full-width hero with large image, overlay headline (serif), author, date

Article Grid — Asymmetric 3-column grid, one large article + two smaller ones per row

Category Section — Horizontal scroll of category pills/tags

Newsletter — Clean email signup with serif heading

Article Page

Article Header — Category tag (#dc2626), large serif headline, author bio with photo, date, reading time

Feature Image — Full-width with caption in small italic text

Article Body — Narrow column, styled dropcar first letter, blockquotes with left border, pull quotes

Related Articles — 3-card grid at the bottom

Technical Details

CSS columns for magazine-style text layout on homepage

Dropcap :first-letter styling

Smooth font loading with FOUT prevention

Reading progress bar at the top of article pages

Responsive: stack to single column on mobile