Lift-out Quotes

COM 365

Newspaper Layout & Design

Liftout quotes

“I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.”

• Need to be complete sentences

• Need to have attributions– Name– Affiliation

• Need to stand out from text– Bigger, different font– Rules

- Katherine Hepburn,

Actress

Placing liftout quotes

• Don’t scatter throughout the text– Place them symmetrically

• Use only at top of text or wrap text around them• Don’t use partial quotes, ellipses (…)

“I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.”

- Katherine Hepburn,

Actress

“I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.”

- Katherine Hepburn,

Actress