Notice Anything Different?

I’ve changed the body text typeface from Baskerville (or Times, if your machine didn’t have that) to Old Standard. People always whine about Baskerville being hard to read/harsh on the eyes, and I really wanted to try out Google’s new web font system.

Implementation is pretty much the same as @font-face, but it’s much easier on server load (since Google hosts the fonts), has a whole lot of clever caching features and somehow works on browsers all the way back to IE6. 

gumplr:

(thedailywhat:Techno Tuesday)
COSMO!

FontForge is really buggy/crashy on OS X (X11, really) at its current stage of development.
That said, as far as my tinkerings can tell me, designing a font is really, really hard. Tiny alterations on node handles can, in fact, create letters that are utterly crazy looking.

gumplr:

(thedailywhat:Techno Tuesday)

COSMO!

FontForge is really buggy/crashy on OS X (X11, really) at its current stage of development.

That said, as far as my tinkerings can tell me, designing a font is really, really hard. Tiny alterations on node handles can, in fact, create letters that are utterly crazy looking.