Re: Fonts on "new" site

[zoe slattery]

Why do we need to download special fonts?  The original site didn't. I'm guessing that to get back to the original, we'd just remove that fonts.googleapis.com line, and perhaps add a 
body{font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;}
to the style section.
There is no _need_ for any particular font. I read a lot about fonts [1] 
[2], discussed it with Igor and came to view that there was no such 
thing as a best font, it's a matter of aesthetics and what you have at 
the moment is what I (and I think Igor) found to be a pleasing 
combination. It can be changed exactly as you suggest, as far as I 
remember the original site used the sans serif combination throughout.

I have just spent some time looking at the site with various browsers on 
Linux. My perception is that the text is very slightly less clear, but I 
don't think I would have noticed it, it's possible that I am not seeing 
the same problem as others have reported.

Zoë


[1]http://alexpoole.info/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-sans-serif-typefaces
[2]http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/11/04/best-practices-of-combining-typefaces/


miles



________________________________
From: zoe slattery<aparac...@gmail.com>
To: dev@trafficserver.apache.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: Fonts on "new" site

Hi
well on all three "common" platforms? Windows, Mac and Linux? I know
the
site used to look ok on Linux, so it must be possible :). [Fwiw, the
font on my Linux looks tiny, are very blurry, and generally just
doesn't
look good].
The font selection is like this:

font-family: "Droid Serif", Georgia, serif; for the serif fonts, and:
"M+2pheavy","Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; for sans-serif.

The Droid comes from<link 
href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Serif:regular,italic,bold"; 
rel="stylesheet">  in index.html (or should anyway) and looking at Igor's sample below 
that's the one that looks worst. Hmm - maybe not working as I thought.

I admit that I tested on FF (Mac), IE(7,8,9), Android and probably iPhone but 
did not look at Opera on Linux. Happily I installed Ubuntu on something earlier 
this week so now I can.

I think it looks fairly well on my ubuntu, but I have installed
ALL THE FONTS.

ttf-mscorefonts-installer<<   This one, among others.
Here's how it looks for me (in Opera):

      http://blag.esotericsystems.at/igor/sees/ats-on-linux
Well - might be my eyes or half a bottle of wine but that looks blurry to me 
:-/ I will look at it over Christmas sometime - I know there are other things 
to fix on the downloads pages and with the headers. Can't see why Opera/Linux 
would be bad though...

Z
Cheers,

-- Leif
i