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Re:Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts ... by shaydoc on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @08:40AM (#7976564)
love this.

I use Raleway, its is a beautiful typeface IMHO

http://anexiledderryman.com/cv

Re:Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts ... by munificent on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @11:51AM (#7977678)
Raleway is a great font, but I'd suggest not using it for body copy. It's really a display font.

If you want a sans serif body font to pair with it, I think it goes well with Source Sans Pro.

Re:Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts ... by shaydoc on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @01:40PM (#7978379)
I appreciate the feedback/tip. I am no expert in typography by any means. and I will be interested to A/B the contrasting styles. I have seen it used in body before and I liked it, hence I used it 😀
Re:Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts ... by gokhan on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @11:35AM (#7977558)
That font has terrible numbers, 3 to 9 are totally weird [1]. The @ symbol is also mentally taxing on smaller sizes.

[1] http://imgur.com/87sEqIW

Re:Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts ... by mcguire on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @12:04PM (#7977764)
Those are "lowercase" or "oldstyle" numbers; they are built to go with mostly-lowercase, running text. I think they look odd with sans serif fonts and anywhere outside of blocks of text, but completely and totally wonderful otherwise.
Re:Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts ... by jp555 on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @12:21PM (#7977859)
I love old-style numbers.

Why should letters get all the ascender & descender fun! :P

Re:Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts ... by shaydoc on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @01:41PM (#7978387)
Agree completely!
Re:Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts ... by shaydoc on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @01:36PM (#7978339)
I think they are artistically wonderful! It all depends how you perceive things, isn't it
Re:Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts ... by davebees on Thursday July 03, 2014 @07:59AM (#7982535)
The negative letter spacing is a little jarring imo.