Question Font change?

Actually, the font change is relational to another font change. I was asked to implement a cursive / handwriting style for use in some stories and while doing so, thought I'd explore a couple new font options to see how things play out.. I picked this one specifically because it is a font with 17 styles (combination of weights, italics, bold, etc). I wanted to see what advantages in look and options that would provide us... and it really does make a difference in the use of headers and the like.

As to the difference between serif and sans-serif... we were using a san-serif font before this. So I'm not sure that that side of the discussion is worth playing out. It was a different san-serif. But it was still san-serif.

I AM open to dyslexic friendly font types... but not enough so to sacrifice having at least three or four different styles. Especially not when there are readily available opensource methods of overriding a browser font with specially designed dyslexia friendly fonts (OpenDyslexia for Chrome, for example)

polyphony wrote: Kristin, ah! I think actually that the uniform font across the site is part of what's disorienting. I'm not going to complain too much,

Not to be contentious but... again... that didn't change. All I did was swap one sans-serif font to a different one. THIS sans-serif has more styles in its design, so changing the header level isn't just a matter of changing the font size as it is with some fonts. But we went from using a single sans-serif font with a moderate number of styles, to another single sans-serif font with a larger number (almost double) of styles. I don't want to offend anyone but, if you don't like the font... just admit you don't like it. Don't try to rationalize it or give me statistics as to why this type is better for certain cases or whatever.... if enough people don't like the font, I'll change it. Ideally to another large style option... and I'll be drawing from Google Fonts, so, if you are advocating change... do yourself a favor and offer suggestions instead of just shooting down options.

Personal opinon, not backed by any statistical data, is that most people that have issues with fonts are simply running their screen resolution too refined for clear display and/or their eyes. Hit CNTL + (that's holding down the control key, and tapping the PLUS key) a couple times until things read easier for you. *I* don't have dylexia, read very quickly, and even I can have issues with fonts on my default screen resolution (what I want it to be for graphics in games and apps). And that's with a gaming graphics card and a 1900x1080 px display.Yes, I can cram a lot of information into one on-screen browser window. But that doesn't mean I can sit back in my desk chair and read it easily. Navigate yes. Read the stories? Depends (mainly on how much narrative vs dialogue there is). But even 1 zoom in and all that blue clears up.

I don't want to have to scroll for days to find things for navigation though. So I don't do this full time. Just when my eyes are tired and I need the bump up for active reading reasons... because clearly, zooming messes with site layout.


As a side note, I only see two serifs with a high number of styles: Taviraj and Trirong.

Font opinions? This is a serif. There IS a sanserif and a handwritten font loaded, so in theory people can use any one of the three if you know how to declare a font

Options would be

- the default is a serif named Spectral:
<p>A quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. </p>

- for a Sanserif, you have Fira Sans:
<p style="font-family: Fira Sans">A quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</p>

- for handwritten/cursive, we have Charmonman:
<p style="font-family: Charmonman">A quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</p>


Uh... note for style overrides - this is for story creation, not forums, btw. And generally, you want to leave style choices out of your stories, so we have the ability to keep stories up to date with the rest of the site's style without having to manually alter individual stories. Any imposed style should be for specific purpose 'relative' to the base style (using a color variation, indenting, or font variants... should be special case, not your default). An example would be when Kayda dreamwalks. We have a special style class (dream) that italisizes and constrains text left and right to standardize what 'dreams' look like in stories. Using a specific font, variant or so on for something like telepathy might also be a good reason.

Hmm... ya, the forums styles were overriding the site wide styles. I've synchronized these for the moment, though that may turn into a nuissance thing on patch days. We'll see.

And if the default weight for the font is a little light for most eyes, maybe I'll try forcing it to use the next higher weight as the default. Should be doable, from what I've been working out with font stuff...