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yes. i don't understand the trend of duplicating quotes from the article inline in a larger font.
by chillaxtian 11y ago
yes. i don't understand the trend of duplicating quotes from the article inline in a larger font.
- to3m 11y agoIt used to be common in magazines (a magazine is like a Moleskine with a bit of blog post on each page - maybe ask your great-grandparents).
- jacalata 11y agoMy great-grandparents are dead, you insensitive clod.
- bunderbunder 11y agoIt's mimicking something many print magazines do. But without any apparent understanding of why or how print magazines do it.
- delecti 11y ago> But without any apparent understanding of why or how print magazines do it I have honestly never had any idea why print magazines do that. Maybe I've never seen a print magazine do it "right", but I think it seems just as pointless and annoying in print or online.
- newjersey 11y agoWell, the problem is I think they are not for you. They are for lazy people like me who don't always read the whole articles. It is a sort of a few sprinkled tl;dr who just want to drive by. The Verge does it as well and I think it is OK.
- plorkyeran 11y agoA common way of consuming magazines is to flip through them looking for something interesting, and a good pull quote will intrigue you and make you want to read the surrounding article.
- mc808 11y agoThat's called a pull quote, which is pretty common in publishing, but it's usually not done inline right after the text being quoted. That's definitely distracting.
- jxramos 11y agonice one! This is what's going on exactly
- matthewmacleod 11y agoThat's not really a trend; publications have been using this technique (a "pull quote") since forever. The presentation isn't particularly nice in this case, I suppose.