There's a warm glow among the Berliner Guardian staff. But the people whose opinion we're really anxious to hear from are the readers.
Thankfully you're more than keen to let us know what you think. Hundreds of you have contacted us and your reaction is overwhelmingly positive. Phew. You like the new format - some think it has a definite "web" feel to it. The size seems to be universally admired and the typography already loved.
The real triumph, though, is the use of colour - you like the centre page spread. But it's not all bouquets. Lots of you are sad to see the back of Doonesbury - his place will be taken soon by Perry Bible Fellowship strip weekly. You mourn the death of Life, and feel that a daily science page is not adequate compensation.
But your main gripe is with the masthead. It's criticised for being old fashioned and not a patch on David Hillman's logo that topped the redesign in 1988. Of course that "classic icon", as lots of you now describe it, was criticised then... perhaps in a week or so you'll come to love this new masthead - they take a while to grow on you.
Perhaps the reader who best sums up your views is Dr Jenny Smy-Murdoch who started to read the paper aged five (50 years ago) encouraged by her grandmother who had been a student at Manchester University in the 1920s when C P Scott was a frequent visitor. Jenny was passionately against the switch from a broadsheet, perhaps fearing a dumbing down of the paper. But, she says, she was wrong: "It's crisp, elegant and contemporary. A joy to read."
But, as the distress at the loss of Doonsebury mounts, the emails and letters gather momentum, and Stephen Potter thinks it's time to launch a Campaign to Reinstate American Parody (CRAP).
