Avant Garde Demi-Bold and Book Condensed. I think. I’m not sure about that capital ‘G’ though.

Other than the type, I think I like it.

These things are all The Colbert Report is good for.

At first I was happy about it — it’s glassy and modern and makes the old set look cheap by comparison. But there are a lot of new visual elements meant to complement the set that just end up being a tremendous mess. Look at the correspondent conversation window thing for example:

The weird orangey-red and the blue are bad enough, but then there’s all that gold trim, and the light blue hue of John Oliver’s title and “LONDON,” the red-blue gradient behind “LIVE,” and the new, awkward Daily Show logo font, which has only been adopted by select elements of the show. They look like a pair of ’84 Topps cards.

Then, during the interview (where both Jon and guest are turned 90 degrees from the audience, due to the new desk), they even introduce a swooshing sound effect with the appearance of captions. Keep watching after the first one, it happens again less than a minute later:

It all just kind of sucks.