What do you think of the new BBC site?

[AB Editor]

If you have yet to see it, visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

There seem to be a lot of negative comments about the changes. Myself? I think it is rather shiny and wonderful.

What do you think about the new BBC website?

 

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What do you think about the new BBC website?

• It's Fine - 7 votes
• 47%
• Love it! - 4 votes
• 27%
• I hate it with a passion - 3 votes
• 20%
• I don't like change - 1 vote
• 7%

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[rowanwitch]

not that bothered really.....

[jno]

and that's both pages with the same font size set on my computer, Greedyfly. I don't know if they've just configured it wrong for Firefox or what.

[Greedyfly]

I have firefox and it is fine for me.

[jno]

ok, so it's just me. I'm baffled. Do your pages look much the same as mine only smaller?

[Greedyfly]

Yes normal font size for me. I have no idea why yours are so large =(

[jno]

=( is right - I hate it. I'm the one who voted for C. Thanks for checking, Greedyfly.

[Greedyfly]

Lol. Maybe it will reset itself?

Hope so.

[Gromit]

jno

It is a different font but they are both the same size.

The new font has a very high x height. This means the height of the lowercase letters are very high. On most fonts it is about 60% of the Cap height. The new font looks about 85%.

They have done this to make the type appear bigger and make it easier to read without taking up too much space.

[jno]

I did wonder if my eyes were deceiving me, Gromit, but I checked by the highly technical method of holding a ruler against my screen. Cap height on a news story is about 3.5mm, on a sports story about 2.1mm. That's just for body text; but it's the size of the headline font that is seriously in my face.

[Old_Geezer]

Didn't like it last time they changed, but I got used to it. This time though it is an obvious step for the worse. I hope they have the sense to change it back or to something else easier to read/use; but I won't hold my breath. Too many folk losing face, too much budget spent to admit to failure.

[4getmenot]

advertising, reported :-)

[steg]

i usually only use it for sport, it looks the same as before