Editorial
Folio Quarterly
A magazine system built for slow reading — generous margins, one serif, and a grid that lets photography breathe across the spread.
Client
Folio Quarterly
Services
Editorial design, type system
Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Year
2025
The brief
Folio publishes long-form essays on architecture and craft four times a year. The editors asked for a format that rewards reading on paper rather than scanning.
The approach
We built a twelve-column grid with a wide outer margin for footnotes and captions, and paired one text serif with a mono for metadata. Every issue opens with a full-bleed image and a single line of type.
The outcome
The redesign launched with issue 18. Subscriptions grew by a third, and the template now lets the two-person team lay out an issue in under two weeks.
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