An editorial EmDash theme built around stories.

Journal moves away from the service-business layout completely. It is designed around publishing: featured stories, topics, article metadata and a reading experience that makes the content itself the main visual element.

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Featured

Stories worth slowing down for.

Editorial typography, featured articles, topic sections and newsletter calls to action.

Best for

Designed around the content this kind of site needs.

Journal is for sites where publishing is the product rather than supporting material around a business.

Blogs and independent publications
Magazines and journals
Newsletters with a public archive
Organisations publishing regular articles

Structure

More than a different colour scheme.

Its content model and visual hierarchy are centred on articles and discovery.

Featured and recent stories
Topic and category sections
Author and publication metadata
Popular or highlighted content
Article archives
Newsletter signup areas

Built for EmDash

Edit the website, not the hosting platform.

The design supplies the presentation and supported content structure. EmDash remains the editing experience while DashHarbor manages the platform underneath the site.

DashHarbor designs are intended to have stable identities and supported versions so updates can be tested against known EmDash and design combinations rather than treating every customer website as an unrelated deployment.

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Choose the design, add your content and edit the finished website in EmDash.

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