Paul Hayes

For the default FofR Online theme, the first of many, I have cho­sen a sim­ple appear­ance that focuses on the beauty of fonts and typog­ra­phy. The header uses a sans-serif font, on OS X this will be Hel­vetica Neue, on Win­dows the CSS font stack allows the design to fall back to the more com­mon Arial, plain old Hel­vetica isn’t used because some Win­dows machines have a ter­ri­ble low qual­ity ver­sion installed. The con­tent area is dis­tin­guished with a serif font, for the time being (no pun intended — where would I be if I started mak­ing type­face puns?), this is Times New Roman. I may exper­i­ment fur­ther with less com­mon serif fonts that are installed on a good major­ity of machines (e.g. with MS Office or Adobe CS4), falling back to Times New Roman if nec­es­sary.
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