Annals Now and Then

Readers will note significant changes in Annals' design, beginning with this issue. These changes were made partly for aesthetic reasons; we make no apology for the journal looking clean, bold, and open, and being a pleasure to use. At the same time, we are also very much aware that over the years Annals has established its own distinctive visual style, and we've been careful to preserve the best and most characteristic elements of that style.

More importantly, we've made these changes with a serious professional purpose in mind: to render the content as accessible and usable as possible. The meta-message to our readers is that Annals is less of an archive and more of a living document, doing everything it can to help readers take the information off its pages and out into practice. Vladimir Nabokov's comment that “In art, as in science, there's no delight without the detail” tells us much about what's required here, namely paying meticulous attention to the details. We have tried to do just that; some of the most important details follow.

-Type size is increased throughout. The intent here …