by Ron Kites | September 19, 2018 6:54 PM
Rockford, Illinois — The American Association of Newspapers (AAN) has announced its annual rates increase will match all increases in font sizes for headlines and body text.
Annual rate increases have synchronized itself with Magnum XL® font size increases since 1999. Headline copy must meet a minimum typeset size of 72 pts. Body copy, details, the news itself, must be set at a minimum 18 pts. There is no maximum type size. Less details equals additional font size increases to coincide with additional rate increases.
New layout changes are already evident within all of the daily published newspapers. The Rock River Times, a voice of the downtown community in Rockford since Ameritech (formerly Illinois Bell, now AT&T) once called downtown home for thousands of jobs that have since evaporated, has made a polarizing layout decision to replace all of their headline and copy fonts with Papyrus and Comic Sans. It’s the first major layout change for the RRTimes since its first published date in 1987.
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RKFDnews reached out for another college-educated comment on Twitter by our little sister company, Rockford Register Star, which is owned by our evil godfather, Gatehouse Media Corporation, but everyone has been laid off, still sleeping, or is at a downtown cafe using a free wireless network to check their social media feeds while chit-chatting with City Officials, Movers, Shakers, All-Talkers and No Doers. No comment.
[4]We also asked a few advertising and marketing firm executive professionals and directors for their over-paid, ego-fueled, short-sighted thoughts and prayers on fonts. They were too busy golfing or getting drunk on mimosas with clients. (RKFDnews decided against requesting anonymous comments about fonts from underpaid, overworked, overqualified and uninsured employees that need to work for these greedy, oft-privileged, lazy mother f**kers in order to survive.)
Fake news, half-baked news, paid-for PR disguised as news, civic pride marketing scams, Cheap Trick Fest, backdoor deals and inaccurate statements, lies, and every now and then, maybe the real deal. Who really knows anymore what people pay for. Problem is that the truth is too expensive.
That’s why we’re here: Proving you can have it all for free at the expense of pride and ignorance. Your pride, your ignorance, your city, your stories, you’re welcome.
— Ron Kites
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