There are three major types of title/cover layouts for magazine articles:
  • half/half (what you see here; under the MAGAZINE ARTICLE HALF HALF 2023 template. cover image can be made bigger by setting the column widths to 2/5-3/5, 1/3-2/3 or 1/4-3/4. width <=1/4 for hed not recommended.)
  • full cover (cover photo appears first, spanning the full width of the page — hed, dek etc. appears below; under the MAGAZINE ARTICLE FULL COVER 2023 template. generally recommended for incredibly high-quality or otherwise impactful image with standalone value)
  • print-format (basically identical to the default print article in terms of layout, hed then dek then cover photo; under the MAGAZINE ARTICLE PRINT FORMAT 2023. for the more run-of-the-mill stories/essays where emphasis on the cover image doesn’t accomplish much)

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Anatomy of a magazine article

The magazine logo and hed are in a single div with id “magazin-post-hed”. Logo is in Heading 4 (#magazin-post-hed h4 is set to font Luke) and hed is in Heading 1 (” ” set to Gastromond).
For full-cover layouts, the entire Grid Row containing the cover image has id “magazin-post-hdr”. This overrides the grid row’s default max-width to set width to 90% (100% on mobile devices minus margins).

This is a dek.

By JONATHAN PARK
Writer headshots are assigned id “mag-post-hdshot”. This shrinks the photo to height/width 120px and crops it to a circle (border-radius 50%).
When choosing the headshot: Upon selecting the image in the Media Library, under Attachment Display Settings select “Medium (300 x 300)”. This ensures a higher-quality image than the default Thumbnail version.
(Lyndzi Ramos / Daily Trojan)

HIDDEN ON MOBILE

Article text has id “magazin-post-content”. divs assigned this id will have a dropcap, as shown below. When creating additional text blocks for article text, e.g. when split by images, do not assign this id to said new text blocks — unless if beginning a new section of the article. 

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