I think I have a new favorite font.<\/p>\n
As many people know, I refuse to work with Times New Roman. I find it… unattractive. The shapes are common. It doesn’t speak<\/i> to me. It doesn’t reveal my inner self.<\/p>\n
Instead, I work in Palatino. Sometimes its close cousin Book Antiqua, but I’ve gotten so that I can spot the differences between them, and Palatino suits my personality better.<\/p>\n
Palatino’s letters are bigger. They are lighter and airier. There’s a gentleness to the way they curve. The serifs are like the flowing of wine.<\/p>\n
Wait, I’m waxing philosophic about fontery.<\/p>\n
Recently, I’ve discovered a new, free font. Gentium<\/a>. If Palatino is bigger than Times New Roman, then Gentium is smaller and narrower, but with a slick polish and inviting curvature. It’s pleasing to the eye, in ways that Times New Roman is not.<\/p>\n A new font to play with. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think I have a new favorite font. As many people know, I refuse to work with Times New Roman. I find it… unattractive. The shapes are common. It doesn’t speak to me. It doesn’t reveal my inner self. Instead, I work in Palatino. Sometimes its close cousin Book Antiqua, but I’ve gotten so thatContinue reading “On a New Favorite Font”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[257,370,371],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-fonts","tag-palatino","tag-times-new-roman","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}