{"id":515,"date":"2012-09-24T21:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2013-07-19T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T11:17:14","slug":"new-typography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Your Favorite Font?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yay! New fonts for my blog. Here&#8217;s a photo of the before and after effect (click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/new_typography.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-516 alignnone\" title=\"new_typography\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/new_typography-300x126.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/new_typography-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/new_typography.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you notice the fonts that are used now? For quite some time I&#8217;ve actually been using mainly the three typefaces that are now also used on my blog, which are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: futura_md_btmedium;\">Futura &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the greatest San Serif fonts I know. I love it for its simplistic geometrical shapes, as well as for its elegent lower case ascenders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: urwpalladiolregular;\">Palatino Linotype Regular &#8211; actually I am using URW Palladio Regular, which is an Open Source Version of\u00a0Palatino Linotype. I love it for its beauty and more importantly for its high legibility. By the way I am also going to use this one as main font for my thesis, which is going to be based on <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/classicthesis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9 Miede classicthesis LaTeX package<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: urwpalladiolitalic;\">Palatino Linotype Italic &#8211; This is probably the most beautiful typeface &#8211; ever. It&#8217;s bad that it is not as legible as its regular version, but hey its soooo beautiful! Just zoom in on this ampersand and you&#8217;ll know what I am talking about:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-family: urwpalladiolitalic; font-size: 72px;\">&amp;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Of course fonts meeting web involves some technical stuff too, actually quite a lot of it. Just for the sake of completeness I&#8217;d like to refer you to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Web_typography\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> and the site that helped me with the font conversion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontsquirrel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fontsquirrel.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more about about fonts I&#8217;d like to recommend\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simongarfield.com\/pages\/books\/just_my_type.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Just my type&#8221; by Simon Garfield<\/a>, which has paid my bedside table a visit just recently. By the way: What&#8217;s your most favorite font and why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay! New fonts for my blog. Here&#8217;s a photo of the before and after effect (click to enlarge) Do you notice the fonts that are used now? 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