Maquette de une de journal

The mockup

A newspaper front-page style layout: "THE MORNING HERALD" masthead at the top, then a bold serif main headline reading "CITY APPROVES LANDMARK HOUSING BILL." Below the headline sits a photorealistic news photograph showing a city council chamber. Body text flows into two columns in classic broadsheet design. Black-and-white, restrained, exactly the visual register of a printed daily.

It's the prompt for any project that needs a believable newspaper-looking page — not a real one, but one that reads instantly as "newspaper."

When to use this prompt

• Editorial design references — mock front pages for film, theatre, exhibition design, fiction book covers
• Civic-storytelling visuals — campaign explainers, "the day the policy passed" retrospectives, history project mockups
• Type-rendering tests — newspaper headlines stress how well an image model handles legible text and serif typography (still a hard task for most models)

Tips for customizing

• Swap the masthead — "THE EVENING POST", "THE DAILY CHRONICLE", "LE MONDE" — to root the mockup in a specific paper feel
• Replace the headline with your own beat (housing, climate, election, scandal) — the layout architecture stays
• Change the era: "1970s tabloid style", "1990s broadsheet", "1950s wartime print" — each shifts the typography and ink-tone register
• Add a sidebar headline ("ALSO INSIDE: …") for a busier, more authentic front-page feel

Related

• More editorial prompts
• Browse all image models tested on layout and typography rendering