I was reading an article about a woman who was shot in the foothill (do they mean heal of the foot…that would really do damage to the entire foot)

town of etc., There was a large gap in the story.

I am way impressed with jlt and his assessment. I am going to look at the front page right now.

Please change my name to Joey Joe-Joe Junior Shabadoo.

The New Sac Bee, now with color comics! Drool.

been on a downward spiral for some time, mimicking the state of Sacramento…

writing stinks, columnists now stink, editor stinks…they’ve managed to turn a decent paper into a pile of crap…but then Fargo and Kerridge have managed to screw up and give away millions of the tax payers dollars to con and flimflam artists too…so what’s the diff?

It’s the WaPost, NY or LA Times of SF Gate…the Sac Bee is junk

I think some things are VERY weird though.

The headlines are capitalized very oddly - sentence capitalization without punctuation, versus standard head cap. Very odd, and I’ve never seen that in ANY newspaper or magazine before.

They don’t use fi ligatures in the headlines, either, which looks cheap. Look on the front page, right side, halfway down for 2 in the same head; the dot on the i runs right into the ball terminal on the lowercase f.

the new body type is nice, but the headline type is hideous. Just horrible. Spaced way too tightly, too, and obviously not designed for that sort of use.

The biggest problem is they obviously had a non-designer make the new masthead. FAKE SMALL CAPS. Yes, it’s true; look at the width of the big caps vs. the small caps - not the same. Every other newspaper in the world would either have an experienced typesetter AT THE VERY LEAST set this using true small caps; any newspaper that cared about quality would have had the masthead redrawn by someone who knows what they’re doing, like Berkeley’s own Jim Parkinson or another good masthead designer.

So, I just have to wonder - what exactly were they thinking? Why the cavalier attitude toward typography? Too bad to see a paper with a fine tradition of clean type throw it down the drain.

Isn’t this the 12th revamp in the last 6 months? When people do that with their shopping lists they are called “crazy OCD” types or similar. Seems like the Bee is flailing about, trying to attract attention- just like a drowning man before he goes under one last time. G’bye Bee…

It says on the front page that the margin issue will be worked out — they’re wider now than they ultimately will be.

The new font choices are interesting, with some headers in serif and others in sans serif typefaces. (Does our frequent commenter/font guru JLT wish to weigh in on this?)