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New BBC corporate font: BBC Reith

To replace Gill Sans in print and on screen (May 2017)

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all new Phil
The new TV app for iPad, which pulls together TV shows from iPlayer, ITV Hub etc - the thumbnails for BBC shows have the show title written in Reith. Wonder if that means iPlayer is next to be updated?
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satellitebadger
Which app is that?
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deejay
It’s the new ‘TV’ app which has appeared on my iPhone with the latest iOS update, I assume. Here’s a landscape grab from my phone. I think that’s Reith too on the programme titles. As far as I can see, and I haven’t played it much, all it does is aggregate tv programmes together in a single app, pointing to the respective players when you want to watch something, a bit like the News app.
It replaced the old ‘videos’ app, where programmes downloaded from iTunes appeared.
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satellitebadger and DE88 gave kudos
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roo
Reith on iPlayer is incoming in the new year. In the meantime, you can try it out on the iPlayer website with the following bookmarklet:
Quote:
javascript:var htmlTag = document.querySelector('html'); if (htmlTag.classList.contains('b-reith-sans-loaded')) { htmlTag.classList.remove('b-reith-sans-loaded'); } else { htmlTag.classList.add('b-reith-sans-loaded'); }
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nodnirG kraM
all new Phil posted:
The new TV app for iPad, which pulls together TV shows from iPlayer, ITV Hub etc - the thumbnails for BBC shows have the show title written in Reith. Wonder if that means iPlayer is next to be updated?


deejay posted:
It’s the new ‘TV’ app which has appeared on my iPhone with the latest iOS update, I assume. Here’s a landscape grab from my phone. I think that’s Reith too on the programme titles. As far as I can see, and I haven’t played it much, all it does is aggregate tv programmes together in a single app, pointing to the respective players when you want to watch something, a bit like the News app.
It replaced the old ‘videos’ app, where programmes downloaded from iTunes appeared.
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Am I right in saying the titles are burnt into the thumbnail images (podcast artwork style), rather than rendered by the app?

29 days later

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AxG
BBC Snooker end-credits proving that the BBC's logo awareness is lacking. Gill Sans BBC Sport logo used.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Tragic thing was it was correct two minutes earlier... Apart from the fact the BBC logo is missing from the BBC Two boxes but anyway...
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dosxuk
AxG posted:
BBC Snooker end-credits proving that the BBC's logo awareness is lacking. Gill Sans BBC Sport logo used.


I'm more impressed they've updated the credits for this look, because they hadn't for the last two versions of the graphics - they had been using this version :-
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PF
PFML84
The regular version of Reith is fine but would still love to get my hands on the thin/light version. The regular seems slightly too thick if not being used on screen.
JA
JAS84
Saw a BBC One highlights trailer that was using Reith.
JO
Joe
PFMC84 posted:
The regular version of Reith is fine but would still love to get my hands on the thin/light version. The regular seems slightly too thick if not being used on screen.

Where have you seen it in print?
PF
PFML84
On the BBC website they detail the different font weights and the thin version just looks like it would be better. Using the regular version on documents, the font just seems a little too thick so it would be more used at larger sizes for titles etc. and not for large blocks of text etc.

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