For its 160th anniversary, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph unveils a new masthead, crest and typefaces

Some news outlets have a hard time staying in business for more than a generation. British broadsheet daily The Daily Telegraph celebrates its 160th anniversary this week with a confident redesign that includes a new masthead, crest and bespoke typefaces, writes John L. Walters.

For the main news stories and display copy, the newspaper group’s creative director Jon Hill has commissioned Austin News (a new version of the Austin typeface family, originally drawn for Harpers & Queen) from Paul Barnes of Commercial Type (see Reputations in Eye 82).

Barnes also drew the new masthead, which marks a return to the inline lettering of earlier Telegraph mastheads over the past century and a half. (The paper has employed a solid version of the masthead since 2003.)