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Ant
lateshowuk posted:

This page has more information:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/07/wider_bigger_better.shtml

12 days later

BB
BBC LDN
I'm going to blame this comment on the early hour of the day and the dangerously little amount of sleep I have had this week - on the BBC homepage, and looking specifically at the BBC logo in the header, am I imagining things or is the 'B' in the middle slightly narrower than the 'B' on the left?

I've not measured them or anything - it just appears to my eye that the two 'B's are not the same.

Yeah, I should really get some sleep.
CH
Chie
BBC LDN posted:
I'm going to blame this comment on the early hour of the day and the dangerously little amount of sleep I have had this week - on the BBC homepage, and looking specifically at the BBC logo in the header, am I imagining things or is the 'B' in the middle slightly narrower than the 'B' on the left?

I've not measured them or anything - it just appears to my eye that the two 'B's are not the same.

Yeah, I should really get some sleep.


Having just measured them myself, I can confirm the two B's are exactly the same width.

You can sleep soundly now, as will I.
JO
Jonny
When the new homepage launched the middle B was definitely narrower than the first B but they now appear to have (finally) corrected this.
BB
BBC LDN
Chie posted:
BBC LDN posted:
I'm going to blame this comment on the early hour of the day and the dangerously little amount of sleep I have had this week - on the BBC homepage, and looking specifically at the BBC logo in the header, am I imagining things or is the 'B' in the middle slightly narrower than the 'B' on the left?

I've not measured them or anything - it just appears to my eye that the two 'B's are not the same.

Yeah, I should really get some sleep.


Having just measured them myself, I can confirm the two B's are exactly the same width.

You can sleep soundly now, as will I.


Unfortunately, my sleep continued to be vexed by the mismatching 'B's, and even after you mentioned that you measured them, I still wanted to check for myself.

By stacking the middle 'B' below the first 'B', it certainly appears that not only are the 'B's of a different width, but that their respective boxes are also slightly dissimilar.

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/beeblogo.jpg

In the image above, you can see that the left edges (just to the right of the vertical red line that I added) of each box are lined up, as are the left edges of the two 'B's, but other points do not match up, and it appears that the first 'B' is indeed slightly wider.

Two things are troubling about this: 1) that I noticed it; 2) that I've spent this much time trying to prove it.
PE
Pete Founding member
I noticed this on a website today

http://m.uk.2mdn.net/1495170/bbc_iplayer_160x600_diamond.swf
JO
Joe
I've seen a few iPlayer adverts recently.
CH
Chie
BBC LDN posted:
Unfortunately, my sleep continued to be vexed by the mismatching 'B's, and even after you mentioned that you measured them, I still wanted to check for myself.

By stacking the middle 'B' below the first 'B', it certainly appears that not only are the 'B's of a different width, but that their respective boxes are also slightly dissimilar.

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/beeblogo.jpg

In the image above, you can see that the left edges (just to the right of the vertical red line that I added) of each box are lined up, as are the left edges of the two 'B's, but other points do not match up, and it appears that the first 'B' is indeed slightly wider.

Two things are troubling about this: 1) that I noticed it; 2) that I've spent this much time trying to prove it.


Well the actual logo itself is perfect, the B's are both the same width. So something on the page is squashing it by one pixel.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
Thought I'd just mention the Britain From Above website...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/

Edit @ 9:15am: Looks like the Radio 3 site has also been updated to the wide layout...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/
CH
Chie
I've been trying to watch Britain From Above on the iPlayer all night, but it just gives a message saying, "This doesn't seem to be working. Please try again later." Rolling Eyes Not a good start, is it?
JC
JonathanC
On the big issue of the BBC logo, Firefox says it's 135px × 38px (scaled to 134px × 38px) - so it's something in the code, shown here in the CSS:

#blq-banner h1 {margin-left:7px;height:38px; width:134px; filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled=true, sizingMethod=scale, src='/home/release-16-4/img/new_logo.png');}

#blq-banner h1 img { display:none;}
h1 a span {width:134px;height:38px;position:absolute;top:30px;left:13px;display:block;}
CH
Chie
Yes, I did say something on the page was squashing the logo, but didn't care to bore anyone with the subject any further or clutter up the page by pasting jargonistic code that most members would find unfathomable.

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