I will be playing around with the theme of this site over the next while. Thanks to Git, visitors won’t be forced to sit through the design change process. I have grown to love Git since working on my GSoC project last summer, gradually beginning to track everything at work as well as my little projects.

Web Fonts#

While investigating the various methods of embedding web fonts, I was quite pleased that @font-face is finally ready for the limelight. I have forced myself to be satisfied with Helvetica and TNR until now, never believing that PHP- or javascript-based image-rendering web font replacement was the Right Thing To Do.

I’m sure to encounter some bugs with browsers that do not support @font-face. The first safe guard against wildly-differing font-sizes is to define the font-size parameters in pixels.

I am concerned with the need to host and serve the web fonts to visitors. I would prefer to use a service such as TypeKit or the Google Font API to take advantage of browser caching. I may end up switching.

The most glaring disappointment of using @font-face while serving the font on my own is the half-second glimse of Arial or Helvetica before Bebas Neue from Font Squirrel drops in to place when first visiting the site.

I am looking forward to @font-face support in the Android browser.