What it decides for you

• Build on a classic newsprint grid: a thin masthead with a tall display-serif wordmark, a hairline section nav, then a dominant featured lead story above a multi-column river of article cards.
• Set every headline in a high-contrast display serif (Playfair Display or similar) in near-black ink, and keep bylines, kickers and body copy in a calm 14-16px sans at 1.6 line-height.
• Stay almost monochrome — warm paper-white, white surfaces and ink text — and spend the single vermilion accent (#D6452C) only on category kickers, links and small rules.
• Divide with hairline rules (#E3DDD1) and whitespace, not boxes or shadows; let photographs sit flush with clean 4px corners so the layout feels printed, not carded.
• Tag each story with a small uppercase category kicker in vermilion above the headline, and close every card with a quiet grey byline and date.
• Give the featured lead far more weight than the grid — a wide image and an oversized headline — so the eye lands on it first, then flows into the columns and the numbered "most read" rail.

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