SPECIAL KINDS OF HEADS
Overline.—Head over a cut. When the name appears under a cut (this being an underline), it is not repeated in the overline, which must be an identifying sentence. “Banker Who Is Running for Congress” and “Woman Who Shot at Burglar in Her Home” are typical overlines.
Box Head.—Head enclosed in a border. Many overlines are set in this way.
Banner.—A headline extending across the top of a page.
Jump or Run-Over Head.—Head used over the continuation of a story that runs over (jumps) from one page to another. Some newspapers require a new head for the jump; others use the top deck of the original head set in smaller type.
Freak Head.—Special type of head used over freakish news stories. (See [Figure 7].)
[Figure 7.]—Freak head from the New York World, set in italics to distinguish it from other news heads.
CAN’T FIX PUFFS;
SUES FOR .5,000.
Woman’s Shoulder Injured on
Street Car and She Asks
Damages of Company.
Sub-head.—A head, usually one line, placed within the text of the story to avoid the monotony of an unbroken front of type. Most newspapers use sub-heads in stories running half a column or more. “Two sub-heads or none” is the rule in some offices. A sub-head is based on the paragraph immediately following.