Typography Change

Typography change — I’ve switched to a sans-serif font, Helvetica, for content. Post titles and headers, meanwhile, are now in the serif font Georgia. I hope this makes online reading a bit easier. If not, please let me know.

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4 Comments

  1. tz247 your flag
    Posted August 22, 2007 at 12:05 pm | Permalink

    Traditionally, typography is the opposite. Sans-serif for headlines (makes an impact) and serif for copy (makes it easier to read small words close together. So you’ve actually made it harder on the eyes…

  2. Robert Koehler your flag
    Posted August 22, 2007 at 12:24 pm | Permalink

    A couple of other folk said the same thing, and they appear to be right. Switched back.

    That being said, I usually prefer sans-serif fonts on the Internet.

  3. Ut videam your flag
    Posted August 22, 2007 at 2:37 pm | Permalink

    “I usually prefer sans-serif fonts on the Internet.”

    I tend to agree—if I’m stuck with Windows’ crappy on-screen text rendering. On the Mac though (or Safari for Windows, which I guess does text rendering through Quartz libraries?) serif fonts are much easier on the eyes at smaller point sizes.

  4. foobat your flag
    Posted August 22, 2007 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

    try Verdana instead of Helvetica, you could also ajust using something like:
    letter-spacing: 0.15em;
    to spread the characters out a tad.

    personally, i like my heading and titles to be a nice big serif (Georgia at 16px or 18px) and Verdana for the body copy.

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