matte

Where “Cross” might be said to have a matte finish, “The Day of the Jackal,” created by the Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter Ronan Bennett, is high-gloss.

Over the last two years, I’ve drenched the bathroom in glossy navy, bisected an office with teal and mustard, painted the stairwell a bright, matte powdery pink.

On June 21, the company posted a Sticker Mule–branded video of an orange matte Cybertruck.

The magazines are sometimes oversized and increasingly matte finished, filled with edge-to-edge photographs and literary heaves.

The latest, 148 full-color, matte pages on 7-by-9-inch paper, is a mix of profiles, Q-and-As, photo essays, even poetry, skewing toward women and people of color and the L.G.B.T.Q. communities.