Comments on: A quick invitation and a small change

By: walt

walt — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:43:40 +0000

The first typeface choice was Book Antiqua, and that’s now second choice if Constantia isn’t available. Hmm. On my system, with ClearType enabled, Book Antiqua displays very well (and did under XP). Different strokes…

By: laura

laura — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:55:58 +0000

I noticed the font was different without looking at the source code, but I’m clever that way. I think I’m looking at the blog now in Book Antiqua, which I like in general but which displays rather poorly in XP/Firefox.

By: walt

walt — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:32:11 +0000

Well yes (looked at the source code, did you?)

Constantia is one of several new typefaces that either comes with Vista or with Office2007. It’s a handsome serif with one unusual characteristic for digital type: non-lining numerals. (Thus, the 3,4,5,7, and 9 all descend below the baseline, while the 6 and 8 rise higher than other numbers.)

I think it’s classy and extremely readable. My wife’s using it for the family-genealogy books she’s working on. (I still prefer Berkeley Book for C&I and my books–but the cover typography on the newest books is Constantia.)

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:48:17 +0000

Of course, I’m not running Windows, but I bet the change is this:

font-family:Constantia,’Book Antiqua’,Palatino,Serif;

By: CW

CW — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:18:35 +0000

Umm, how about bloggers (as opposed to blogs), digital rights management, gaming, lifestream, peer-to-peer, social networking, unconference…

As for the change, if it’s Vista/Office 2007 specific I can’t see it as I’m still running XP.