Well, got my copy of the new-format Guardian...

[non sociopath skin]

... a bit of a culture shock but first impresssions broadly favourite.

Preview on GU here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/0,16390,1552451,00.html

Nice, clean crisp look to it (more NY Times than Le Monde, IMHO), especially the "magazine quality" colour photography - less "muddy" than the Indy's.

Good extended Op-Ed pages. Easy to handle and read ...

Yes, I'll buy it. :toast:

The Skin

[Taxloss]

1. I'll be buying mine in half an hour - what's the paper quality like?

Heavy?

[non sociopath skin]

4. About the same.

As I said, cf Le Monde, NY Times.

The Skin

[Taxloss]

8. Well, I think it's pretty good, with a few reservations.

The front page is a bit of a jumble. I dislike the large flannel panel above the masthead. I'm not a big fan of the masthead itself, but the blue is smart. It might just be that the old one was so very good. I wonder if they will vary the colour.

The larger news stories and features inside look pretty good, the smaller ones look a bit lost.

The comment & analysis pages and the new media supplement are excellent.

G2 has a very colour-supplement feel; that's not necessarily bad as long as they keep the fluff quotient down.

"If ..." made me grin like a loon.

[burrowowl]

2. Not bad!

Just hope they keep their traditional reporting and stance!

[mr blur]

3. Well, I was wrong

Nice job.
Great typeface, quality colour, nice clean layout and doesn't look/feel tabloid at all.

[lindisfarne]

5. They dropped the (labour) red. Is that a political statement?

And Judi Dench on the front page. Nice decision.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. A petty objection, but why the lower case title?

I notice they're still using an upper case 'G' on the web page titles. I'm not a fan of using lower case when all convention dictates upper case.

[Taxloss]

7. I'm with you on that one. Typographic fashion is swinging against lower

case and it might look dated rather quickly.