Re:Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts ...
by munificent on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @11:51AM
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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
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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
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That font has terrible numbers, 3 to 9 are totally weird [1]. The @ symbol is also mentally taxing on smaller sizes.
Re:Beautiful web type – typefaces from the Google web fonts ...
by mcguire on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @12:04PM
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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
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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!
I use Raleway, its is a beautiful typeface IMHO
http://anexiledderryman.com/cv