New BBC corporate font: BBC Reith

Well, the 15th is a Monday...

Seems weird that they started updating certain BBC World News programme titles to Reith, but then stopped.

So far they’ve done Impact, Beyond 100 Days and business programmes. Any others? Lots more to do.

In other news (likely Reith related)...

Amazing news as I return from my break: the BBC has extended the character count for headlines, heralding the end of the crossword clue era

— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeFT) June 30, 2019

I just went to the BBC News main homepage and it was all in Reith - unfortunately when I refreshed I reverted back to Helvetica, before I could get a screenshot,

Really!? That's cool then. Sounds like it's nearly ready if that's the case.

I'll leave this here




Seachd La has been using Reith since September 2018

Strange that they haven't updated An La to match. But then the inconsistency of Reith's implementation has been the only consistent thing about it.

This sounds like TVForum's first urban legend.

Not necessarily implausible that they're doing some A/B testing of the new version?

Yes, it's something they've done for quite a while.

I've made a small userstyle if you want to force every page of the BBC website in Reith (you'll need the Stylus extension). Looks... different, particularly in the BBC Account settings.

Reith appeared in the annual report