The New York Times Magazine, The 1619 Project issue 2019, online edition by The New York Times
To mark the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship arriving in the United States, the New York Times Magazine ran a special issue in print and online. The design was managed by Deb Bishop, the Art Director of The New York Times Magazine Labs. The design takes advantage of two of the custom typefaces designed for the magazine by Henrik Kubel of A2-TYPE: NYT Mag Serif and NYT Mag Sans. The setting is also interesting for its unusual use of italic caps with the roman lowercase (the inverse of italics with roman caps).
The paper describes the project and how it came to be:
In August 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived at a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia. The people on board were sold to colonists, marking the beginning of a more than two-century-long institution that would radically alter and continue to inform the identity of a young nation.
This month is the 400th anniversary of that ship’s arrival. To commemorate this historic moment and its legacy, The New York Times Magazine has dedicated an entire issue and special broadsheet section, out this Sunday, to exploring the history of slavery and mapping the ways in which it has touched nearly every aspect of contemporary life in the United States.
The 1619 Project began as an idea pitched by Nikole Hannah-Jones, one of the magazine’s staff writers, during a meeting in January. Her proposal was clear and ambitious: to dedicate an issue of the Sunday magazine to examining the ways the legacy of slavery continues to shape our country. Its implications, particularly for a newspaper that continues to face criticism for its past and present coverage of black Americans, were huge.
Article text is rendered in NYT Imperial, another custom typeface for the New York Times, designed by Matthew Carter based on Edwin W. Shaar’s Imperial (Intertype, 1954).
3 Comments on “The New York Times Magazine, The 1619 Project issue 2019, online edition by The New York Times”
Ah yes let us send out this precious word to the whole world. You can buy a copy of the 1619 Project from Amazon if you want to pay over $300. Yes, all poor ghetto dwellers want to lay out $300. So that cannot be a way to find out about 1619. How about OnLine?? No luck; I have been watching for a year now. Why do I suspect that the authors fear that 1619 is an easy target, loaded with all that is bogus and self-serving. Do tell me please: Where can I find a copy OnLine??
John, I’m not sure what you are talking about. This post is about the typography of the online edition by the New York Times. It’s still available under the address linked above: www.nytimes.com/interactive…
As of today we black and Latinos are still under the Jim Crow Law we the people who our ancestors came over on the mother ship’s in chain’s and sold to work there crops are still Slaves under the Jim Crow Law as of today in time and in history. In time God is going to pay back to all who done wrong to our ancestors and all that’s going on in darkness again with the Jim Crow Law of today 's world.