The day after labour day tends to be a good one to unveil new redesigns. Quebecor is tweaking the look of its 24 Hours papers across the country today, including 24 Heures in Montreal. Each includes an article praising itself for the new design and how much better it is. (The articles aren't online yet, but you can read the 24 Heures version on their digital edition on Page 5.)

The biggest change in the layout is that the headlines and photos look bigger, which of course means less room for actual news (but nobody cares about that if they're reading 24 Heures, right?)

You'll also notice more use of yellow, particularly in highlighter-style behind smaller headlines and labels. I make note of that particularly because there's a certain other newspaper in town that redesigned in May - and it too promised bigger headlines, bigger photos and more use of yellow highlights.

But to suggest that 24 Heures and its sister papers across the country redesigned so they could look more like the more successful direct competitor Metro, now that would be silly.

Here's a before and after:

Old	New

And a couple of other news pages from the new design: