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Big—And Little–Changes at 'The New Republic,' Which Is a Magazine
In a dramatic move under new tiny millionaire owner Chris Hughes, The New Republic has redesigned its website to take a strong stand against em dashes. Simply everyone is talking about it: sometimes presented as two adjacent hyphens, sometimes replaced by a misused en dash, but always using a type treatment that shortens both em and en dashes, perhaps related to the use of double-justified text, this typography is both innovative and disruptive. As is its daringly large linespacing. Also they eliminated advertising.
The internet is really starting to suck with all these bloated websites.
Is this the New New Aesthetic?
Em-dash or GTFO. Mr. Hughes should be ashamed.
Just so long as we don't see glowing cover stories on Charles Murray's The Bell Curve anymore. That was my dealbreaker with the Peretz era TNR ..
People who cannot typeset glass houses should not throw pi sorts.
First Salon, then USA Today, then this. I hate these shitty app sites.
and thanks for not linking to them ;-)
@my_piru Harper's had an equally horrendous site redesign some months ago. At least they did not butcher any punctuation marks.
I sincerely don't know what the fuck Slacktory would do without the em dash. Use semicolons like Little Lord Fauntleroy?
Also—and maybe this is really a sign of restraint—no one has coyly commented with em dashes yet. Fixed.