Ok, after looking into all of these (and some others I found), I decided to go with Warnock Pro, which had a much larger x-height, while also preserving most of the aesthetic that I care about.
Let me know in case anything renders badly on Windows machines. I am currently working on setting up the caption version of the font for small post-previews on the frontpage, and seeing whether the Display version of the font might work better for our larger heading sizes.
Thanks a lot for the recommendations. This saved me a lot of work, and I really appreciate your help in all of this.
Further feedback: I know you’re still working on the site’s typography, and what I see isn’t final, but I do want to register a strong suggestion that you increase the point size of the text—especially of the comments. I have to zoom to 150% to read it comfortably, on my 22″ desktop display. (I would recommend a point size of 21px.)
re: rendering: I haven’t checked Windows yet, but on all the Linux installs I’ve got, the text seems to render fine (although the effect of the small point size is even more pronounced; zooming is absolutely necessary for it to be readable).
Yeah, I think increasing the font-size on posts a bit makes sense, though to do that I will also have to increase the central column width, since we are otherwise approaching a fairly low number of characters per line, but that should be doable.
While I agree that increasing the font-size on comments is more necessary, I am also worried that it’s by far the most costly there, since increasing the height of any individual comment makes skimming the comment threads a lot more difficult.
I will give redisigning the comment area a try sometime in the next few days, and depending on how that goes, I might actually end up going with a sans-serif for the comments, which should then increase readability at the smaller font-sizes we have right now. FB seems to get away with a 12px font-size, which I do think is a bit too small, but it generally still seems fairly readable.
Ok, after looking into all of these (and some others I found), I decided to go with Warnock Pro, which had a much larger x-height, while also preserving most of the aesthetic that I care about.
Let me know in case anything renders badly on Windows machines. I am currently working on setting up the caption version of the font for small post-previews on the frontpage, and seeing whether the Display version of the font might work better for our larger heading sizes.
Thanks a lot for the recommendations. This saved me a lot of work, and I really appreciate your help in all of this.
Glad to help.
Further feedback: I know you’re still working on the site’s typography, and what I see isn’t final, but I do want to register a strong suggestion that you increase the point size of the text—especially of the comments. I have to zoom to 150% to read it comfortably, on my 22″ desktop display. (I would recommend a point size of 21px.)
re: rendering: I haven’t checked Windows yet, but on all the Linux installs I’ve got, the text seems to render fine (although the effect of the small point size is even more pronounced; zooming is absolutely necessary for it to be readable).
Yeah, I think increasing the font-size on posts a bit makes sense, though to do that I will also have to increase the central column width, since we are otherwise approaching a fairly low number of characters per line, but that should be doable.
While I agree that increasing the font-size on comments is more necessary, I am also worried that it’s by far the most costly there, since increasing the height of any individual comment makes skimming the comment threads a lot more difficult.
I will give redisigning the comment area a try sometime in the next few days, and depending on how that goes, I might actually end up going with a sans-serif for the comments, which should then increase readability at the smaller font-sizes we have right now. FB seems to get away with a 12px font-size, which I do think is a bit too small, but it generally still seems fairly readable.