{"id":1000066,"date":"2006-06-27T11:52:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T16:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/web-development\/2006\/06\/27\/steal-this-font\/"},"modified":"2006-06-27T13:59:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T18:59:03","slug":"steal-this-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/web-development\/2006\/06\/27\/steal-this-font\/","title":{"rendered":"Steal This Font"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was so taken by the clean look of Mark Pilgrim&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2006\/06\/02\/when-the-bough-breaks\">latest blog entry<\/a> that I just had to look at his stylesheet, and figure out what font he was using. It seems to be Gill Sans at a large size. I&#8217;ve now revamped this site to use that as its body font. (Optima is the backup for those deprived PCs without Gill Sans installed.)<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, he&#8217;s using 180% line height which looked a little too big to me, so I&#8217;ve set the line height at 140%.<\/p>\n<p>I still need to play with the heading, sidebar, and comment fonts so they match&#8211;maybe I should just steal Mark&#8217;s choices for these too&#8211;but overall this font feels quite a bit more readable and modern to me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so taken by the clean look of Mark Pilgrim&#8217;s latest blog entry that I just had to look at his stylesheet, and figure out what font he was using. It seems to be Gill Sans at a large size. I&#8217;ve now revamped this site to use that as its body font. (Optima is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-development","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}