wow. i am so unimpressed. i worshipped neville brody when i was in school. at least there's no industria.

I'm getting 404 errors when I try to click on the pages, for some reason.

The crest redraw has a splendid Disney overtone, and the font has glum tombstone feel. It would be more accurate to say that after 4 years the newspaper shows a new face. So far it looks like good news for The Telegraph's circulation...

The links to images 2-5 appear to be broken.

The headline face isn't a bad condensed renewal, but the masthead type is far too simplified for that display size. Glum indeed.

Looks rather like Hoefler’s Mercury; which Brody has used for T2

And the line that the Times has only changed its font on four occasions in the Brody press release; well thats just a plain lie.

OK, links fixed! Apologies!

FYI: Luke Prowse, who designed the new font (Times Modern), and is from Neville Brody's Research Studios talks about the typography with fellow U.K. visual editor - Alan Formby-Jackson.

Did Alan talk to Prowse? I'd love to read that. I just see a paragraph from the Research Studios press release though.

It was upsetting for me, as a type designer, to read the poppycock in the press release issued from Research Studios. Their claim that the Times is the only UK newspaper with custom typefaces is patently untrue. (The recent redesign of The Guardian was Very Big News in London design circles.)

It was upsetting for me, as a type designer, to read the blather in the Times' own coverage of their redesign, including this gem: "It would have been simpler and cheaper to buy new computer type off the shelf. But that is not Times style."

Obviously this style doesn't expand to include the Times' licensing of Hoefler & Frere-Jones' massively popular Gotham family as the sans serif replacement for Franklin Gothic.

As for the new Times headline face? Looks like a wannabe Farnham to me, but with dodgy spacing and kerning.

Please tell me that the "new" look is depicted in the image on the left of your website way, way up there at the top. Otherwise, God save the Queen (and anyone maybe walking down the street looking at news stands, maybe...maybe...thinking about buying a bloody paper. )

Mark said: Did Alan talk to Prowse? I'd love to read that. I just see a paragraph from the Research Studios press release though.

Yes, check out www.visualeditors.com/jackson

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2457539.html

Read all comments - 31 to date - and you will see that the Times redesign looks to be a roaring failure with its readership. No amount of nonsense and spin from Research Studios or the Times can change that.

Mark,

Sorry, here's the link to Alan's interview with the type designer.

Robb

Well, it looks a bit more like the Guardian. You can't blame 'em, right?

I'm really sad The Times old and powerful newspaper in London , try to do something like The Guardian, look like little brother, really I don't like it!! they have everything (technology, fonts, computers, printers, networks, media) for do something better 400% better, something wonderful and powerful design, but not, maybe they hire wrong designer, that's all...