The Times is set to launch the first phase of its full-colour redesign Monday, the Guardian reported Friday.

The paper's redesign will include an expanded times2 features section, as well as offer more full page spreads, and will focus on weekly editions, not the Saturday edition.

A small team at Times publisher News International has worked on the redesign and revamp, the Guardian reported.

The Times assistant editor, Anoushka Healy, led preparations for the full-colour edition. Ben Preston, former deputy editor, lead the last Times redesign in November 2006, when a new font, Times Modern, was introduced. Neville Brody, former The Face art director, created the new font, according to the Guardian.

In 2004, the Times switched to a tabloid format, and overtook the Telegraph in full-rate sales for the first time.