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I’m loving the font for the site title. What is that and where can I get some?

Posted by: Traveler on June 1st, 2004 6:02 PM

It’s Zapfino. Only available on the Mac, sadly. Windows users get Lucinda or a serif font. Which probably looks awful.

Posted by: kasei on June 1st, 2004 10:39 PM

Yeah.. it’s serif. It’s passable, but I can’t wait to get Edward online to see this as it’s meant to be. If it were Lucida fucking Handwriting, I’d kill you, then myself. I hate that font. It’s uglier than Courier.

grin Well maybe I wouldn’t kill you.. but definitely myself.

Posted by: sara on June 1st, 2004 11:31 PM

I have very little interest in what font is used on Windows. If you would like to give me a list of suggestions, I’d be happy to replace Lucida.

Posted by: kasei on June 2nd, 2004 12:44 AM

Futura, 11 point.

Papyrus, because splinter groups are the best groups!

Posted by: Benjamin on June 2nd, 2004 1:22 AM

Eh.. it’s not Lucida.. I don’t think Lucida Handwriting is any sort of default for Internet viewing.. it’s just overused everywhere. Personally, I don’t care what happens in Windows either, as I’m only bothered by it when I’m at home, and if all goes according to my hare-brained scheme, I won’t have to be faced with living at home for any extended period of time ever again.

Posted by: Sara on June 2nd, 2004 9:14 AM

don’t forget about us linux users! :) the title looks pretty horrible here too. plus the background picture of the title makes the text hard to read.

Posted by: gary on June 2nd, 2004 9:30 PM

Describe “horrible.” And suggest something different. Easy to experiment with the Mozilla EditCSS plugin. I’ll add any changes you want to make it look better on linux, but I don’t have a linux box handy these days to experiment on.

Posted by: kasei on June 2nd, 2004 9:46 PM

ok, well “horrible” just means the default system serif. i don’t have zapfino or lucinda bright. but since the title is also in a normal size, it doesn’t look like a title at all. what does zapfino look like? then i can suggest a similar font available on linux.

Posted by: gary on June 2nd, 2004 9:56 PM

There will be no similar font to Zapfino on Windows or linux. It’s the same font that the old raster title was in, and unfortunately is much larger than other fonts, thus making all other fallback-font titles look too small. I’m open to suggestions, but my primary design decision will remain based on the Zapfino title.

Posted by: kasei on June 2nd, 2004 11:39 PM

you’re right. that’s a very nice looking font. i’ll see if i can find something that comes within a tenth of its quality :)

Posted by: gary on June 3rd, 2004 4:26 AM