Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

the royals: calzino’s ilx bat-signal

I for one am glad that somebody is prepared to offer support to ISIS in this difficult but necessary task

judge a man by his enemies etc

Markle, 36, an American actor best known for her role in the legal drama Suits, displays her engagement ring in both studies. The ring was designed by Harry.

it's a ring, surely as long as you can operate a pair of compasses

^ I couldn't find the propert 'favourite screen names' thread, but genuine lol at that one, NV (you might've had it a while, only just noticed)

let’s not give harr

it's a ring, surely as long as you can operate a pair of compasses

"still at least they're not envoys for Trump's values"

Trump is quite useful for odious Lineker/Rowling types, it gives them someone other than Corbyn to slag off. And when you are trying be nice Tories, having such a fucking amoral fascist abomination to score easy moral points off is very useful for their social media side of the biz. Fuck all these people tbh!

I know, it was a snarky dig at the Graun's outraged Taylor Swift op ed upthread

Taylor Swift = bad
The Royal Family = delightful

apparently

I'd forgotten about that one before I read it!

I meant to say before I didn't read it. I refuse to believe Dan Hodges + Piers Moran are on the right side of any argument, but it seems the Graun has gifted them this opportunity.

taylor swift thing was revealed as nazi psyop in the stormer style guide leak, so i guess the guardian is not great.

the guardian is nazi psyop tbf

Why Turning Off Your Lights Tonight Wastes Energy

makes u think

You Won't Hear The One That Gets You, And That's Okay

More Prince Harry today:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/27/the-guardian-view-on-prince-harry-the-monarchys-best-insurance-policy

Just giving him the same tobacco smoke enema as the BBC have, yeah more posh but dim Tory celebs needed in this era.

this headline

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/07/uk-retailers-to-restrict-sale-of-acid-products-to-under-18s-b-and-q-wickes-tesco-attacks

you have to send your bairns into B+Q for sulphuric acid these days, that first acid attack is always the most special one!

This is quite impressive:

The @guardian have written an obituary of their former editor which contains false information lifted, seemingly, straight from Wikipedia. This is extraordinary. (Peter Preston's 51st State is a weirdly prescient political novel. The film is about a drug deal in Liverpool.) pic.twitter.com/LP9spFDAIJ

— Heather Ryan (@DrHFRyan) January 7, 2018

fuck me, that isn't going to make it to the corrections and clarifications section.

is the Guardian masthead worse than it used to be?

http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/design/articles/2012/september/27/design-of-the-week-david-hillmans-guardian/

I miss the 90s masthead

sorry, the link was supposed to be this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/12/guardian-unveils-new-masthead-tabloid-launch-newspaper-online-apps?CMP=share_btn_tw

look forward to a bunch of thinkpieces from the usual idiots about how the absence of capitalization indicates a postmodern wilderness where truth has been abandoned and the liberal consensus has failed and you're not even allowed to call them [INSERT RACIST EPITHET HERE] any more

caps are back mate and serifs too

https://i.imgur.com/GqeNCAl.jpg

It looks like the font on a mafia film poster.

Was thinking more 80s Woody Allen

It feels like it should be lightly animated.

i like it, the guardian still sucks tho

can't help reading it as The. Guardian

oh I obviously mis-skimmed the article, hurray for truth, objectivity and sensible centrism.

there's a fish and chip shop in Hull called The Codfather that uses a similar logo

I think this cover has been v typographically influential over the last couple of years

http://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr9781476789033/a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing-9781476789033_hr.jpg

(See also the South Bank rebrand etc)

It looks like the font on a mafia film poster.

― Madchen, Friday, 12 January 2018 11:49 (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was thinking more 80s Woody Allen

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 12 January 2018 11:55 (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

First two thoughts!

pls to make 'guardfather' photoshop

that sort of late-70s airport novel font is everywhere now

isn't it a bit close to the evening standard actually??

https://d24j9r7lck9cin.cloudfront.net/l/f/1/1569.1433428864.png

also good

main difference visible in the As

there are a lot of As writing for both papers

\o/

i like the guardian font better but the ES handles the fall on the page better (e.g. the dot on the i doesn't resemble a full-stop after London, and having London at a smaller type size is good not bad)

(i think the guardian shd also have downsized their the, it's the least important element in their name)

pls to make 'guardfather' photoshop

― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Friday, January 12, 2018 12:57 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark

Or Guardfellas.

It's making my eye do funny things between the T and the H, possibly because of the sloping tops of the U underneath.

I don't like this new Guardian typeface.

I intend to buy the paper today, for the last time before it changes.

that'll show 'em.

I found two old Guardians in a storage box recently. One from when it looked like Clinton might get impeached and another 10 yr old Saturday edition with my uncle interviewed about abuse he suffered at an Irish industrial school in the 50's. It got me checking if Francis Wheen is still alive, haven't heard much from him for years, although his Marx book appears to be on my bookshelf and I can't remember reading it or where it came from.

new layout will add an exciting retro feel to my anonymous death threats