About BBC News
BBC News is the visual language of a century-old public broadcaster distilled into typographic authority. BBC Red marks urgency and the NEWS wordmark; deep Navy anchors navigation and category chrome; everything else recedes to white space and charcoal type. The 2017 Reith typeface — commissioned from Dalton Maag — gives the BBC a proprietary voice that works from broadcast lower-thirds to mobile headlines, replacing decades of Gill Sans dependence with a modern humanist family built for screens.
- Origin
- London, United Kingdom
- Era
- 1922 founded; current visual identity ~2017–2024 (Reith typeface + refined blocks logo)
- Key figures
- John Reith · Martin Lambie-Nairn · Tim Davie · Dalton Maag
- Movements
- public-service broadcasting · digital-first news transformation · British modernist identity
BBC News design spec
Colors
Typography
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