Layout or make up is the arrangement of headlines, body type, photos and other elements on a newspaper page. The primary objective of page layout is grading the news.
Different types of make ups are possible for newspaper. Horizontal, vertical, symmetrical, asymmetrical make up, circus make up, occult make up, broken column make up and brace or focus make up. The use of only one make up may give a bad look to the page.
Types of layout
1. Vertical Layout
Vertical layout gives the simplest page organisation. Headlines are set in the width of basic- single column grid and the text runs single column. This oldest layout style has limited range of news value expression.
2. Horizontal Layout
This is another simple layout but with more capacity for emphasis. It is modular with text squared up under multi – columns heads to create a horizontal unit. In this layout a long story seems shorter. Complete story can be read with page folded at the natural mid page fold and without the reader having to shuffle the paper up and down, headlines are separated from each other by text and thus each headline retains its emphasis.
3. Symmetrical Layout
Symmetrical layout attempts to produce an equal balance of eight around an axis, classically the optical centre of the page. Each side of the optical centre should be a mirror of the other.
4. Asymmetrical Layout
This layout is dynamic and excludes any pre-determined point of balance. Here ‘artistic balance’ or ‘informal’ balance is achieved by a balance of unequal forces at unequal distances from the centre.
5. Brace or focus make up
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 or upper left hand corner.
6. Broken Column Make up
The page is broken into several units to give space to many stories. Large heads and cuts are placed where they give the page a pleasing pattern.
7. Occult make up
Type groups are arranged at varying distances from the centre like. It is sometimes called occult or hidden balance because the type group with its headline may be balanced with a picture, an illustration or a bow, instead of another type group.
8. Circus Make up
It is broken column carried to the extreme. The page is broken up with no attempt at regularity, symmetry, or order.
Many headlines of all size; boxes and cuts are scattered all over the page, there is no focus of interest.
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