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[Rich-Harris]

This uses Tiempos Text for headers and body text, but there are a bunch of typefaces in the Tiempos family that would likely be better for the headers, so evaluate the body copy only.

Long stretches of italics don't look great, though that could maybe be alleviated by using a thinner weight or decreasing the font size

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[benmccann]

This is the best looking one I've seen. I'd dial the size down by about 10%

[dummdidumm]

+1, best so far

[benmccann]

huge improvement!

[Rich-Harris]

If we do this, we will need to buy a license, which means figuring out a realistic estimate of our monthly traffic (either uniques or pageviews) https://klim.co.nz/buy/tiempos/

[dummdidumm]

I just tried out Georgia for fun over this, and the difference honestly isn't that big (and would us spare the license dance). Rich you said you don't like Georgia that much, could you elaborate a bit on why?

[Rich-Harris]

The best way I can describe it is with a video of Justin Bieber talking about Skrillex's expensive-sounding sounds. On the face of it it's a ridiculous statement, and if you're not an EDM aficionado then Skrillex might sound like any other artist in the genre, but he's articulating (albeit clunkily) something that's absolutely true.

Tiempos Text and Tiempos Headline are expensive-looking typefaces. Georgia is well-designed, for sure, but it's the font equivalent of the free sounds you get with GarageBand. The two typefaces have different effects on the reader, especially if the reader cares about design and typography (and Svelte is a framework that appeals to those who lean towards the designer end of the designer-developer spectrum, so many of our users do care).

I suspect a more prosaic interpretation of 'expensiveness' is part of why EB Garamond looks so fantastic on my screen but you find it blurry — the typeface itself is an expensive-looking typeface, but it probably wasn't thoroughly professionally hinted, because that's a time-consuming (i.e. expensive) process. (Hinting is the process of helping the computer figure out how to render glyphs on a pixel-by-pixel basis — it's much more important on low-resolution screens, or operating systems that either don't do subpixel antialiasing or do it poorly.) This is why I also experimented with non-free Garamonds.