Do you remember that time when EVERYTHING changed...?

the way 'today' is exactly in order is now perfect
forum looks brilliant

Search is still difficult for me. Second the thing abt not showing which forum subsection a thread is from. Also, it's weird that the current projects thread doesn't say who posted most recently any more. However, I don't miss having to read the username 'emoxfag' every time I go into it.

Bit late to the party, but I like it a lot. Nice work Velocio, and everyone else involved.

Many thanks, glad you like it given you've seen almost every version of every forum I've ever run.

It's because you can change username, right?

That helps, though obviously there's only one defunct electrical goods supplier for me.

A number of things, though most notably it's pretty much the only website that hasn't made me want to throw my phone out of the window in disgust. I assumed my phone was the problem but now I suspect it's the rest of the internet at fault.

You and 6pt were part of the cohort I was keeping in mind.

Specifically... when you're touring the site should just work, photos should be uploadable, etc. So that it's possible to have a conversation which is like a blog of a tour, and it's easy to update it on the move.

Not quite there with the specialised tools, but certainly not making it impossible either.

Apparently I missed out on all the carnage. Back from USA and the new site is great. #rep for @Velocio

@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:

• Merriweather
  
• Droid Serif
  
• Palatino
  
• Elena
  
• Georgia
  
  

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.

#rep for use of octothorpe

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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I seriously may go back to experimenting with Merriweather.

Since I looked at it originally they've released an update the provides the styles that were missing as well as additional hints.

Speaking of fonts, are the numbers meant to appear slightly lower than the letters?

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Font just changed?

Now even bigger?

Experimenting... font is the same size as before. But it is a different font.

Now it's smaller.

Merriweather is currently in use, I'll re-evaluate later today.

Thoughts so far:

• On Firefox on Linux = LGTM
  
• On Chrome on Linux = LGTM
  
• On iPhone 3 = LGTM
  
• On iPad mini = Looks slightly smudgy
  
• On Android (all browsers) = LGTM
  
  

So iPad mini is a concern... but how is it for everyone else?

Ugh.

Slashes in URLs are terrible in Merriweather.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/252824/?offset=900#comment11779910

Look at that horrible spacing.

My bad, it was just https:// that was doing it, I was loading the font on http://

Looks awesome.

My bad, it was just https:// that was doing it, I was loading the font on http://

Testing quote sizing.

So for those of you who have CTRL+F5 this morning... is the Merriweather font we have today preferred over the Elena one we had yesterday?

Yes.

The fonts we are selecting from all have drop numbers.

0123456789

Note how the number 6 and 8 both reach above the line, and numbers 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 all have tails that hang below the line.

I can't even see a difference.

HTH!

You may need to CTRL+F5