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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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Josh
There's also a look at the new BBC News logo on page 62
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bilky asko
Josh posted:
There's also a look at the new BBC News logo on page 62

The BBC News logo does look brilliant.

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JJ
Juicy Joe Founding member
Josh posted:
There's also a look at the new BBC News logo on page 62

The BBC News logo does look brilliant.

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You're joking, right?
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VMPhil
Josh posted:
There's also a look at the new BBC News logo on page 62

Oof, the other channel logos are ugly low res JPEGs with lots of compression artefacts, BBC News and BBC Parliament are nice vector graphics.

Here's a screenshot, there is indeed a new 'BBC News Red':

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bkman1990 and bilky asko gave kudos
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harshy Founding member
It’s going to look terrible with bbc world news
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mdtauk
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bkman1990, harshy and paul_hadley gave kudos
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seamus
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,


This sounds like TVForum's first urban legend.


Haha I assure you it's not a chupacabra - if you refresh the page on occasion you'll see it switch fonts, I think the A/B theory is likely. Might be worth trying different browsers to see what happens, I can't be bothered!

Edit: Well, looks like I'm getting it on the geographic news pages:

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Last edited by seamus on 2 July 2019 9:21pm
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VMPhil
At the risk of having these end up appearing somewhere official because they appear on Google image search, a quick mock up of what the other channels could look like based on the BBC News one:

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Brekkie
Let's hope the BBC Two box is never seen on air.
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VMPhil
Let's hope the BBC Two box is never seen on air.

I think the teal box is still technically BBC Two's logo since it appears on the BBC website and social media accounts etc. Not 100% sure.
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chris
It also appears on the credit squeeze promos.
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natwel27
I do applaud the fact that the mock includes 'ONE' in capitals. It has always bugged me that since 2006, the BBC One logo was not in capitals when BBC Two and Four were.

If official changes were made to the logo after being 'Reithed up' (maybe along with some new idents also), I would like to see 'BBC ONE' rather than 'BBC one'.

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