[Former Member 406]

Some of the piecemeal changes to elements of BBC News programmes' graphics (wipes etc) in recent-ish times have seemingly been showing the general direction of travel to be moving away from anything derived from the stripey globes (arcs, circles etc) and towards straight horizontal/vertical lines, squares/rectangles etc.

The at-launch looks of "(The) Context" and BBC Three's "The Catch Up" I therefore took to be indicative of the sort of thing which might eventually come to general news output like the One/Six/Ten/NC etc. That may well still prove to be the case, if/when the anticipated "spring 2023" refresh ever materialises.

The Context now essentially moving in the exact opposite direction (dropping a look based largely on rectangles, in favour of arcs/curves/circles) is therefore a perplexing surprise. And yet, conversely, The Context now has the more usual BBC News colour palette of red & white compared to its previous bespoke colour scheme.

It wouldn't now surprise me (although I don't think it's particularly likely) if Newsnight also finally succumbed to adopting the standard BBC News red colour (albeit presumably paired with black rather than white, to retain the logically "night" feel that its very name begs). Especially given that it's now simulcast on the NC, which - if The Context's new look is anything to go by - may now be trying to get away from bespoke colour palettes for anything that's "news" output (as opposed to e.g. Click, Nicky Campbell, Sportsday, The Travel Show, etc).