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are there any good online designs that actually look like a print newspaper, with the features you describe?

I've wanted to take a stab at it because I think it would be "neat" but haven't actually found any good reference implementations.

also seems like with almost everyone on mobile it's just not worth it.

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Papers only work because they know exactly what the view portal is and can design the layout relative to that. Unless you have an a3 sized screen this will not work very well online.

You can achieve some of the proportions with vw and vh units inside the article and column containers. Much of the effect comes from nicely laid out columns more than how many columns wide is your digital broadsheet, so the aesthetic scales okay on smaller screens. On mobile screens it’s just nice-looking individual columns.

i think the nytimes landing page does a good job at looking and feeling like an analogue newspaper

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