This is a newly composed keepsake, not an original archived newspaper. Pick a date that matters and we typeset a front page whose lead story is about your person, surrounded by the real events of that day.
We set pages for birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and retirements, and the wizard also covers a new baby or any occasion of your own. Each one asks a different set of questions, because what makes a retirement page good is not what makes a wedding page good.
Choose the date and the page fills with what actually happened that day — politics, sport, science, culture — set on a twelve-column broadsheet grid with vintage typography. The events are real; the writing is a recreation.
Their name is in the headline and their story runs above the fold. You tell us who they are and a few things about them, and the front page is built around that.
This is not a scan of a paper from an archive. It is a new front page composed today, which is why you can put your own person on it — something no original newspaper can do.
A name, a date, and about a minute. A photo and a few details about them make the lead story better, but nothing beyond the name and date is required.
Send a private reveal link and the recipient unwraps their edition online with your note attached, or download the page and give it however you like.
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A front page we compose for a date you choose, where the lead article is written about the person you are celebrating and the rest of the page carries the real events of that day.
Birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, retirements, a new baby, or an occasion you describe yourself. Each occasion changes what the wizard asks you and how the lead story is written.
No. It is a new keepsake composed today from real historical events. It is not an archival reproduction and is not affiliated with any real newspaper.
About twenty seconds once you have filled in the wizard.
You can duplicate any edition in your library and edit the duplicate — copy, photos, fonts, themes and the page grid.
No. Only the name and the date are required. The story questions are optional and you can skip the whole step.
No. Making the edition is free, and so is downloading the finished page.
No. Every edition is a digital download. The file is high resolution, so you can print it at home or take it to a print shop, but we do not ship anything.