Re: theguardian
- From: Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:03:14 +0100
In article <1h2u4b7.9agt0y3c2vxbN%thnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim
Hodgson <thnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > In article <1h2u26v.18x6p9i7rroc8N%thnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim
> > Hodgson <thnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Google finally told me that the body and heads are their own font,
> > > > which they are calling Guardian Egyptian.
> > >
> > > You could have read page 1 yesterday and saved yourself an hour :)
> >
> > Damn. I missed reading yesterday's. 'Was busy' is my excuse.
> >
> > Whatever. It is a pretty font. I hope it turns out to be one that stays
> > looking good after you get used to it.
>
> I'm hopeful. I'm afraid I remember being very dismissive of the '80s
> redesign at the time, thinking it would look terribly dated within
> months. Keeping my mouth shut this time.
I loved it from the start. Those monster drop caps will take some
getting used to in this one. They need to do some work on the H&J
(yesterday's g2 p3 col1) but then, it wouldn't be the grauniad without
something like that.
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