Strange Conversations: Part Two Hundred and Ninety-Seven
Posted 10 May 2010 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
This sums up my life, especially at 7:30 on a Monday night:
ME: Sweetheart, I love you, but you have to stop performing a mouth-orchestra counterpoint to ‘Every Rose Has its Thorn’ while I am trying to write.
NICK: Sorry.
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John wrote at May 11, 02:28 am
Sorry about not joining in the Dr Who discussions, but I’ve been quite busy, and it seems a little silly to comment now. But I fully agree with all the endorsements of “Time of Angels” and all the complaints about “Victory of the Daleks.”
(I also choose to remain silent about the necessity of effective temple cleansing: those soft furnishings were evil.)
But as to the new blog design: I must admit it looks pretty ordinary in Firefox. The heads and subheads are in Arial, which I’d be pretty certain wasn’t the intention. But in Safari! I don’t what the head font is, but it’s lovely, and suits the overall design very effectively.
The body-text in Safari is nice too: is it Helvetica? Alas, it renders as Times New Roman in Firefox.
Actually, should specify: I mean Firefox/PC, Safari/Mac. I’ve just checked and Firefox/Mac is fine. Must rememeber to only read the blog at home, on the Macbook.
But very good: compliments to the designer.
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Nick Caldwell wrote at May 11, 03:15 am
Hi John, what’s the version number on the PC Firefox you’re using? Firefox has only recently gained non-buggy @font-face support so the PC version is probably rendering the fall-back fonts.
The heading typeface is Costa STD and the body typeface is FF Tisa Web Pro.
I’m happy with Arial/Helvetica as fall-backs for the headings; both are fine at larger sizes. Body face fall-back should really be Georgia, though Times New Roman does give a slightly old-timey feel.
All type is provided by the astonishingly awesome Typekit.