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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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JO
Josh
what posted:

I've had it for months. Won't work in Word though, for some reason.

Does it work in PowerPoint or any other program?
DB
dbl
Photoshop, most definitely
GM
Gary McEwan
If it's a TTF file then it should work with Word after it's been installed.
PF
PFML84
If the earlier versions didn't work with some programs, it was possibly because it was a bad rip from a web page or poorly converted, but these are the actual versions now, in TTF so should be compatible with everything.
WH
what
JoshX posted:
what posted:

I've had it for months. Won't work in Word though, for some reason.

Does it work in PowerPoint or any other program?

Works great in PowerPoint.

17 days later

MO
Moz
Yay, the new BBC Sounds app is full Reith - including serif!

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Also the BBC Newsbeat logo is in Reith (not sure if this is new)...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat
WO
Worzel
Moz posted:
Yay, the new BBC Sounds app is full Reith - including serif!

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Also the BBC Newsbeat logo is in Reith (not sure if this is new)...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat


Nothing like consistency, eh? Laughing
AG
AxG
The Newsbeat logo is not in Reith (well not to me).

Also a small niggle, but BBC Sport on Twitter when a team scores a wicket has an image with 'WICKET' in Reith, and the niggle being that the top bars of the E and T are different, which lead me to compare more of the font:

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BR
Brekkie
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MO
Moz
AxG posted:
The Newsbeat logo is not in Reith (well not to me).


Isn't this Reith...? (the b looks Reith to me)

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AxG posted:
Also a small niggle, but BBC Sport on Twitter when a team scores a wicket has an image with 'WICKET' in Reith, and the niggle being that the top bars of the E and T are different, which lead me to compare more of the font:

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Couldn't this be for accessibility reasons?
FB
FBC
That Newsbeat logo has been in place since 2015, so I doubt it.

https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_and_identity_for_bbc_newsbeat_by_moving_brands.php

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KE
KELGE
Newsbeat use a font called Effra (as per the 2015 rebrand) http://www.movingbrands.com/work/bbc-newsbeat

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