The First Cohort — homepage directions
All five carry the two things you liked from the first pass: the red “Cohort” in the masthead and the color-coded beat headers that separate categories.
Real headlines, real bylines, and real hero art from the last two weeks of posts. Each has its own light/dark toggle, top-right.
1. Broadsheet + Beat Index
A dense newspaper front page: lead story with a large hero image, a right rail of secondary stories with thumbnails and the newsletter box, and a beat-grouped three-column index below. The most newspaper-like of the five.
2. Beat Columns, Image Led
A wire index, warmed up: a compact lead band with the hero art beside the headline, then three columns of beat-grouped stories where each column is led by a real image and the rest run as tight text. Highest story count, fastest scan.
3. Beat Bands
A vertical stack of horizontal bands, one per section, with alternating backgrounds so the categories separate hard. Commanding lead up top, then a Cancer feature, card rows for Nutrition and Metabolic, and a split Brain / Autoimmune band. The most image-forward, browse-by-subject option.
4. Two-Up Feature + Beat Rail
Two co-equal lead features share the top instead of one dominant story, followed by wide thumbnail rows, with a beat-grouped text index running down the right rail. Calmest and most magazine-like of the five.
5. Bold Populist Front
The loud one. A maroon kicker bar, a 38px commanding headline over a full-width hero, a three-across secondary tier, then two columns of beat-grouped stories. Journalism-with-receipts energy, held back from tabloid by the warm palette and serif type.