Over the next few days (likely weeks/months) I’m going to be experimenting with Typekit to use a slab serif typeface for headlines on The Casual Optimist.
At the time of writing, you should be seeing the ‘logo’ and ‘tagline’ at the top of the page displayed in the beautiful Adelle by TypeTogether.
I would love some feedback on Typekit (is it intrusive?) and the typeface (is it an improvement?), so let me know what you think in the comments. Cheers.
I’m so glad you’re doing this…I’ve wanted to see this in action.
On my PC here at work, it looks great on FF 3.5, lousy on IE 7, and it doesn’t seem to work at all on Safari or Chrome.
Thanks Joe. I’ve been meaning to try it out for awhile, but TK only just added a couple of slab serifs that I thought might work: Adelle and Museo Slab.
It’s good to know about IE7 (*sigh*), and I’ll keep you posted…
Cool that you’re using Typekit. I’m interested to do the same. And digging the typeface Adelle, by a foundry honed in on “text typefaces, with a focus on editorial use.”
Thanks Nate. Adelle is lovely. A friend tipped me off to it a couple of weeks ago and then I saw it available on Typekit. It seemed the perfect choice! :-)
It looks great! Not obtrusive at all.
I use Safari on a Mac and it looks good, but I am sure IE messes things up quite a bit.
Keep up the good work on the blog.