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September Changes

• 9/12/2008
• 4:27 pm

One big change, one small.

The big change: I changed the font for the body of posts from Georgia to Verdana. The explanation is that the text block was too dark in Georgia. I think the added weight of the Serifs account for this, but either way Georgia’s a darker font. Verdana has more open counters too. The lighter text “color” makes the text more approachable, but also adds contrast (thus direction) to the page as a whole. Given that Verdana has a much larger x-height than Georgia, I reduced the font size to 12px (from 14px). This increases the leading, also contributing to a lighter feel (though the x-height makes this change minimal, practically speaking.

The small change: I’ve lightened the color of the 1px dashed border between blog content and meta the sidebar. With the change in font serving to differentiate the two, the border need not be so pronounced.

Body text color

• 7/14/2008
• 1:46 pm

I’ve been wondering if the text color is a little too intense. Opting for a dark gray rather than true black (#000000) is nothing new. Seems to me it makes good sense. This isn’t print after all. I guess I’ve never had a standard for what text color to use on a white background, but I think something like #333333 might work well here. In addition to being potentially easier on the eyes, it would create contrast between the posts’ titles and bodies. Comments?