Favorite fonts?
Sep. 19th, 2020 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kestrellI realize that I am opening a serious can of geeky worms by asking this, and I even encourage that, so...
Do folks have favorite fonts?
I'm trying to decide on a font for my webpages. I want something sans serif and accessible/easy to read, but also something that evokes books. My favorite font is actually futura, which is what my business cards are in, because it is both supposedly the most easy to view font--it's a geometric sanse serif-- and associated with space travel and science fiction, due to being the easiest to see at the farthest distance. For some reason, however, it is suggested that futura should only be used for headings and signage.
Do folks have favorite fonts?
I'm trying to decide on a font for my webpages. I want something sans serif and accessible/easy to read, but also something that evokes books. My favorite font is actually futura, which is what my business cards are in, because it is both supposedly the most easy to view font--it's a geometric sanse serif-- and associated with space travel and science fiction, due to being the easiest to see at the farthest distance. For some reason, however, it is suggested that futura should only be used for headings and signage.
Re: I'm opening a can o worms!
Date: 2020-09-20 05:14 pm (UTC)Hooray for learning through poking around (my #1 approach). Yeah, the tool isn't perfect yet, but it IS a start, and I hope you'll join in me in gently pestering the dev.
.... but as far as Dreamwidth reading goes, let me (briefly) trumpet the joys of style=mine.
DW offers style overrides for three cases: what your own journal looks like, what a page on someone else's journal looks like, and what your reading list looks like.
For example, here's your reading page in your own style:
https://duskpeterson.dreamwidth.org/read?style=original
I'm planning on writing this up someday Real Soon Now. Luckily,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
greywash did an outstanding job (while also exploring some access philosophy at length). I've included my comment thread because it links to the appropriate DW settings pages.
https://greywash.dreamwidth.org/61819.html?thread=249979#cmt249979
Re: I'm opening a can o worms!
Date: 2020-10-14 10:33 pm (UTC)https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=display
I'm fond of style=light too, for linking.
By the way, the gentleman who runs Navidys is a sweetheart. I pointed out to him that, once the style was applied, it was impossible to tell where the links were. Within 24 hours, he posted an update that solved the problem.