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The logo though is so familar that legibility isn't that critical - indeed it doesn't even need to say BBC in the boxes for people to assume it's the BBC logo - people kind of fill that bit in from their memory. 

I did have similar concerns when it launched but I don't think it's really been an issue on screen, and it was occassionally an issue with Gills Sanas anyway.  Actually refreshing it's perhaps been designed for the TV screen rather than for avatars and icons on your mobile.

I'm definitely a convert. The boxes on the Reith logo seem to look more disfigured when smaller as the letters are right near the edge of each box. Because of the spacing on the new one, the boxes seem more separated when smaller and not just the slightest pixel of a line like on the Reith one. 

The C on the Reith logo seems "off" on the old one compared to now also.