Old Faces

For a while there, Georgia was the sign of a fresh site design. It meant the site probably used CSS and was even powered by some newfangled blog script. It was clean, appealing. Not the same old Times New Roman. Yet safe. But that was yesterday. Now it’s everywhere. Georgia is the new Times New Roman. The new default. People end up using it without even knowing it used to be what’s up.

That’s why i love stopping by sites like Joe Clark’s fawny.blog [via]. So much going on typographically. He lets the words speak. He literally puts more meaning into one paragraph than i don’t even know how to finish this analogy. Somehow so visually appealing, yet nary a graphic in sight. His stylesheets list over a dozen acceptable font faces so if you happen to have one of those fonts installed on your system, the page is rendered using that face instead of one of the boring standards. Well done. Forget Web 2.0. Here’s to over-populated font sets.