• @Velocio the # character looks like a misdrawn pi in my browser, the font (or chrome's renderer) doesn't hint it enough not to lose the lower bar of the octothorpe.

    Chrome Canary, Windows 7, zoomed at 75%.

  • Does it look OK if you're zoomed at 250%?

    Am kidding.

    Yeah, I'm not sure the hinting is good at smaller sizes. This font looks great at normal size text only, whereas something like Droid Serif was specifically hinted for small screens and to be displayed at smaller sizes.

    On our list of fonts were:

    Of those, Palatino was the finest but the licensing was far too restrictive (we need to be able to use it on multiple sites on multiple domains by a single license holder).

    Georgia too expensive by far.

    Merriweather has great licensing, is affordable, and superb hinting, but the content just didn't look great in it.

    Droid Serif has great licensing, is affordable and reasonable hinting, but really gives an Android feel due to it's use there which turned-off Apple users. Looks freaking great on Android though.

    Elena looks a lot like Palatino, has a great license, is just about affordable and it looks lovely, but I was aware that it's a small studio and may not have as much nerding out on crazy hinting issues across platforms and devices.

    Out of interest... could you see what Merriweather looks like for you at that size and supply a before/after screen shot. That was #2 in the run off for fonts.

  • I set Typecast to font-size:18px; line-height 28px to match LFGSS, then zoomed it to the same effective size.

    With this browser, OS, display device and effective font size preference, Merriweather is more readable, and the # is complete at sizes even smaller than the size in that screenshot.

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