{"id":404,"date":"2005-09-13T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T07:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2005-09-13T09:59:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T08:59:35","slug":"size-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/13\/size-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Size matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Alan Rusbridger would like us to &#8220;<a href=\"mailto:whatdoyouthink@guardian.co.uk\">email<\/a>&#8221; <em>theguardian<\/em> with opinions on its new Berliner format. Get with the programme daddy-o! No-one emails anymore. Don&#8217;tcha know it&#8217;s the blogs where it&#8217;s @ now?<\/p>\n<p>&lt;cough&gt;<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I think the new <em>Guardian<\/em> is pretty good. Yes, and pretty. (I was a mite touched that Saturday&#8217;s paper concluded with &#8220;The End&#8221;, sensitive soul that I am.) The size is much better and just right for folding on the train without bashing the person next to <strike>me<\/strike>you in the face.<\/p>\n<p>There are, of course, some ways it could be improved, and I sense a blogosphere consensus on some of these. There seems to be little enthusiasm for the new masthead, with its rather pass&eacute; combined lower case words, and there are concerns about the use of white space and the rather large drop caps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My wishlist<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Less white space under headlines and in the Comment section<\/li>\n<li>Footnotes are a good idea, but not when tackily designed to look like hyperlinks<\/li>\n<li>Restructure the crossword so that it fits in a quarter of the page (so that the paper can be folded comfortably behind it) and move the setter&#8217;s pseudonym back above the grid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>G2 is a handy size now, and although the terrestrial TV listings have been relegated to the inside, they do now have digital listings located more conveniently alongside. There is also a kakuro puzzle, the rather more mathematical cousin of sudoku.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorvee.co.uk\/2005\/09\/12\/my-thoughts-on-the-berliner\/\">doctorvee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwghlm.co.uk\/blog\/?p=765\">Chris A<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/troubled-diva.com\/2005_09_11_troubled-diva_archive.html#112654012060896835\">Mike<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Alan Rusbridger would like us to &#8220;email&#8221; theguardian with opinions on its new Berliner format. Get with the programme daddy-o! No-one emails anymore. Don&#8217;tcha know it&#8217;s the blogs where it&#8217;s @ now? &lt;cough&gt; All in all, I think the new Guardian is pretty good. Yes, and pretty. 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