Third edition — Critic round 2. Verdict: "3rd of ten — the concept is the sharpest in the field and the body typography is the best craft here, but it is a broadsheet with zero photographs, and mobile breaks the grid the thesis rests on." Notes actioned within the honesty rules: the front page now carries a photograph's slot — a properly proportioned, hairline-ruled reserved photo well under the lead headline with a real editorial caption ("Delft & Rotterdam — a scoping session…"), marked as awaiting the branch photo shoot; no stock photo is printed in its place, per the colofon's own rule; the mobile masthead no longer wraps — a plate does not reflow, so it now scales down on one line instead of stacking; the folio bar stays a bar on mobile — one horizontally-scrolling row rather than four stacked centred lines; the classifieds share one framed well with a column rule between them and stack to a single column below 640px (they were a ~20-character measure); the clip-out coupon is rebuilt for mobile — intro above the coupon, full measure, "Post the letter" a full-width bar, the ✂ cut-line kept; a rule hierarchy was introduced — 3px slab above the classifieds department and at the masthead, 1px between stories, hairlines inside boxes, a vertical column rule in the classifieds — so the page reads in registers instead of one grey texture; the awaiting-copy device was redrawn from an 11px olive dashed stub into a confident bordered notice with a bold green "NOG NIET GEDRUKT" standing head at full body size; the front-page "read on" became a house-ad jump line ("Turn to Katern 2 →") in the paper's serif rather than a web button; and the rail was differentiated by kind — the koersen stays the one framed stat box, the op-ed is unboxed with its headline balanced off its "gaps" widow, the redactie and "volgende editie" are now open ruled lists, and the colofon remains the single inverted panel. Kept intact, all named the best of the variant: the justified three-column body with real hyphenation, the green drop cap, the ✂ coupon, the black colofon panel with red ✗ marks, and the Dienstregeling table.
Second edition — Critic round 1. Verdict: "the only variant with a genuinely ownable front page" — masthead called the best single element in the ten-way field — but the mobile listings grid overprinted itself and the right rail died a third of the way down the desktop page. All notes actioned: listings and dienstregeling stack cleanly below 720px (explicit grid rows); the rail is now fully set — de koersen, the op-ed, the colofon, the redactie as a proper boxed staff box, and an "In de volgende editie" notice — no rule points at white; lead columns are justified with hyphenation and balanced fill; the headline recast to kill the widow with text-wrap: balance behind it; amber slots capped at one per viewport (classifieds now carry period-correct "RUIMTE GERESERVEERD" lines); the language rule enforced — Dutch for the paper's furniture, English for content; the intake form set as a clip-out coupon (dashed cut-line, scissors, "knip uit"); mobile source order rebuilt so de koersen and the colofon land above the staff box; secondary mastheads set in serif — the blackletter belongs to the front page alone.
First edition — initial construction. Built from the shared content spec with all accumulated lessons applied: zero motion and zero JS by thesis, no card walls (newspapers invented better forms), plain controls ("Post the letter"), no cross-page duplication (Katern 2 is its own section of the paper), one placeholder register, correct field counts. Awaiting Critic round 1.