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Standard broadsheet page:
The best reproduction of your ad in The Huntsville Times will be achieved if your ad copy is correctly sized. The image area of our standard (broadsheet) page is 10.958 inches wide by 21" inches deep. The page is divided vertically into six columns. The following table gives the width measurements for columns on a standard broadsheet page.

Standard Page

Width

1 Column

1.722 Inches

2 Col.

3.569 Inches

3 Col.

5.417 Inches

4 Col.

7.264 Inches

5 Col.

9.111 Inches

6 Col.

10.958 Inches

13 Col.
(Double Truck)

22.416 Inches

Tabloid page:
A tabloid page has an image area of 9.875 wide by 10.958 deep. The image area on a tabloid page is divided into 5 columns. The table below gives the precise measurements for columns on a tab page.

Modular sizes sold in sixteenth, eight, quarter, half, full and double truck

Tabloid Page

Width

1/16 a page

4.875 inches x 1.26 inches

1/8 a page

4.875 inches x 2.646 inches

1/4 a page H

9.875 inches x 2.646 inches

1/4 a page V

4.875 inches x 5.417 inches

1/2 a page H

9.875 inches x 5.875 inches

1/2 a page V

4.875 Inches X 10.958 Inches

Full Page

9.875 inches x 10.958 inches

Double Truck

20.50 Inches X 10.958 Inches

Classified page:
Classified ads and Classified display ads are built on a standard broadsheet page with an image area 10.958 inches wide by 21 inches deep. The Classified page is divided vertically into 10 columns. The precise measurements for Classified Display ads are show in the table below.  

 Classified Pages

Column Widths

1 Column

1.021 Inches

2 Column

2.125 Inches

3 Column

3.229 Inches

4 Column

4.333 Inches

5 Column

5.4375 Inches

6 Column

6.542 Inches

7 Column

7.646 Inches

8 Column

8.750 Inches

9 Column

9.854 Inches

10 Column

10.958 Inches

21 Column
(Full Double Truck)

22.416 Inches

We can help.
Your The Huntsville Times sales representative can provide you with special grid paper imprinted with column measurements.

Designing your advertisement on the correctly sized grid not only permits you to better visualize the design, but it also helps us to give you a better reproduced version on the newspaper page.

If you could use some professional help designing your ads, remember The Huntsville Times provides free layout and typesetting services for all display advertisers.


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