January 25, 2023
Cover Story: A Picture Worth A Hundred Thousand Names Of Agate Type
- by Joe Mandese @mp_joemandese, May 24, 2020
Monday's front page of the print edition of The New York Times utilizes a newspaper style known as the "tombstone" to commemorate the roughly 100,000 Americans who have died from the COVID-19 pandemic (so far).
The tombstone gets its name from a type of newspaper ad that is unadorned text, black on white, often enclosed in a simple box, with a centered headline and a number of lines in the body of
the ad, usually also centered.
The name originates from the ad style's similarity in appearance to the text on a tombstone grave marker.
“I wanted something that people would look back on in 100 years to understand the toll of what we’re living through,” National Editor Marc Lacey stated.
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