Newspaper Press

A style sets the paper stock, the ink, the masthead face, the headline face and the body face together. The era rules are applied on top, so the required lines stay correct whichever look you choose.

Drag a block on the preview to move it, or grab the corner to resize. Blocks tagged AUTO come from the template and the era rules — edit one and it detaches, so a rebuild will not overwrite your wording.

The stock of metal a printer owned: rules to divide the page, fleurons to fill a short column, a manicule to point at a notice, and the paper’s own device in the title. Click one to drop it on the page — or on the selected block to swap it.

A production’s invented brand, dropped straight in. An SVG is placed as vector and can be forced to a single ink. A PNG or JPEG is thresholded and traced to solid shapes — a logo is line art, not a photograph, and screening one turns it to mush.

Marks live in the project file, not in the browser autosave — save the project to keep them.

Not a spell-check. What a printer, a press of this era, and a camera would each object to — every finding says why it is wrong, so you can decide to keep it.

Things printed on a front page that carry a date of their own — a price, a postcode, a web address, a tax line, a barcode. Each is checked against the year you set and against the market, because decimal pence is British and the euro belongs to whoever adopted it. What is listed is the year the thing reached a newspaper, not the year it was invented.

Two things are deliberately not checked. Typefaces — every face here is a modern digital stand-in for metal that no longer exists, so dating the file would flag every page ever made. And Greek glyph coverage — the renderer already swaps to a Greek-native face when the language is Greek, so the fault cannot occur.

Blank censored column. Reads instantly on camera, but it is dramatic shorthand, not period evidence: the Greek régime of 1967–74 and Franco’s Spain both forbade visible gaps, because a white column advertises the censor’s work. The cut had to be filled. Add one from the Blocks panel if the scene needs it.

Everything here is drawn as vector overlays and SVG filters, so it survives the export and prints at whatever size you set. Nothing is baked into a bitmap.

Saved in this browser only — nothing leaves your machine and nothing is published. Export the gallery to move it to another computer or hand it to the art department.

The layered SVG carries named groups — paper, artwork, aging, guides — so a print shop, a plotter and a retoucher each take what they need.

The same piece, several ways, in one pass. Everything you are not varying is held still, so the “same” design really is the same design.