

The redesign wasn't a radical change — sometimes designers go nuts and readers don't recognize the new product — but instead appeared to be tweaking of an already successful free daily.
Unlike RedEye, TBT, Metro or amNewYork, Express isn't putting much celebrity news on the cover. Instead, the D.C. free daily has a heavy diet of hard news. Recent cover stories include:

• Dec. 2: The White House party crashers complaining their lives have been destroyed.
• Dec. 3: The beginning of stem cell trials.
• Dec. 4: The implications of the NBC-Comcast merger.
• Dec. 7: "Emissions: Impossible," a preview of the Copenhagen climate conference.
• Dec. 8: The uprising in Tehran.
• Dec. 9: Improving test scores in D.C. schools.
• Dec. 10: "The War and Peace Prize," the president's Nobel Peace Prize.
• Dec. 11: "On Notice," the Metro transit system's boss is under the gun.

As for the fonts, Express changed its news headline font from Knockout to Flama, its features headline font from Miller to Farnham, and its body copy (and decks) from Miller to Fenway. Also, they're using Popular in places.