Today I got around to updating an aspect of this site that’s long been needing attention. The use of fonts here had never quite been right, and had really fallen into the “That’s good enough for now, I’ll get back to it later” category. So today I finally made some decisions and spruced this place up.
I had previously used Rockwell for headings, as I’ve loved the geometric forms and sharp slab serifs. Being a font bundled with Microsoft Office and in widespread use it also felt close enough to the ‘web-safe list’ to avoid the need for SIfR or @font-face. However using Rockwell here always felt like style over substance, and in my opinion didn’t quite fit.
For headings and nav-bar labels I’ve moved to Centro Sans Pro (specimen shown in the image above) with FontDeck to serve it. It’s clean, smooth and readable with a subtly unusual shape in places, which makes it stand out – rather than jump out.
I’ll stay with Verdana as the font for body text, as it’s hard to find more readable screen font. I’m sure I’ll revisit these decisions at some point in the future, but for now I’m very happy.