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

I doubt it, I can see Merriweather right there in my dev tools console.

I'm sure the two fonts look completely different to the various font-gnomes that inhabit the "designers" thread, though!

The fonts are well different.

Just compare the " between the two.

The biggest differences are:

1. Merriweather has a larger body
   
2. The ? is weird
   

Elena is better than Merriweather for me.

This does not help me.

What browser? What version of browser? What operating system? Are there any special settings you've made to how your operating system displays fonts?

Apologies. IE10 on XP. No special settings.

Thanks.

Although, I'm not going to change things for XP users. I realise this may be a workplace machine, but font rendering is an operating system task (for the most part) and that OS is long out of date.

There's little to nothing I can do to make anything look good on XP.

But you may be able to fix this at your end, there is a tool called ClearType that you can configure:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/step1.aspx

Yes, it is a work machine; would not use IE through choice.

Only thing I noticed was the weird "?".

Looks so out of place?!?!?

I dunno, adds a certain puzzled quizzicality to the question mark.

Merriweather is loads better on Chrome on my crippled windows xp work machine. The other one was really washed out.

I no longer get email notifs of a pm. Any idea why?

Do you haz email notifications turned on?

https://www.lfgss.com/updates/settings/

I had the greatest of luck in that the old fonts were cached on my home laptop, and so I was able to put this to the test just a second ago.

And yes, the only difference I can see is the "?".

Hurrah for font gnomes!

And #?

I don't recall and I won't be checking. I spend 8 hours a day arsing about with the code inspector at work and I will be fucked if I'm going to continue to do it while relaxing at home with my beer and my dinner and my stories of a Friday evening.

Don't get me wrong, when I noticed it I thought "well that's one of the best ? I've ever seen" but then we're all book text nowadays and it seems like that one little flourish that reminds you that this ain't paper, this is t'interwebz.

There should probably be a , or ,,, among that.

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 hinting is vastly superior. Mac Safari. Thanks.

f0nt pron thread needed
one thing- when you hover over a thread- is there any chance of having the words pop up to scan? I know its like v bulletin and all that but I liked that

@Velocio, Clicking on a thread I hadn't checked for a while in old LFGSS only gave me posts from the past 7 days, on new LFGSS I think I get all posts since I last checked it? Preferred the old way, why the change?

just realised that 75% zoom on a 15" macbook allows zero horizontal scrolling if Chrome is left aligned with BetterTouchTool

#win

So, hinting? Anyone give me a ... clue as to what that is?

Font shapes are defined using vectors, so they always look awesome when you make them bigger.

When you don't have enough pixels to draw the proper shapes, hinting is what makes sure that each stroke is visible, tells it where a bit of grey might make black-on-white more readable, or nudge a stroke out of position a little to align it to the pixel grid.

I dunno, adds a certain puzzled quizzicality to the question mark.

This had me laughing.
I like the new font.
Also nice "LFGSS" Tab in the menu.