First of all, congratulations to reader Bruce Higham for winning a free PDFpenPro license, and a huge thanks to the fine folks at Smile for so generously giving away such an amazing productivity tool.
And yes, as you can plainly see, the sans have it… or don’t have it, or… whatever.
Open Sans will be the new primary font for Practically Efficient. Thanks for all the input, and I hope you like.
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Thanks Eddie and Smile. Made a great day even better. New job and new great software.
If only PDF pen pro came with house removalists…
Cheers
Bruce
Congratulations! For both of you. That software is really fantastic, and the website font is very good.
Everything is bold for me…
Great that I read your posts in a feed reader ;-)
Great font!
Bart, you might have the same problem I did. It turned out I had downloaded and installed all the Google web fonts a while back — and it only contained the Light Condensed version of Open Sans. So the site text was basically unreadable and I thought Eddie and all the Open Sans proponents had lost their minds. Now that I have the full Open Sans font family installed the site looks better than ever. Great choice!
Thanks for the info. In theory, you should not have to install anything local because, behind the scenes, my CSS fetches the necessary information from Google when it loads the page. That said, I’ve seen a few odd problems in certain browser / OS combinations. XP is particularly bad about rendering newer fonts.
I’m trying to polish some of this quirkiness, but I think it’s just a “cost” of moving on to newer things. I’m also a site designer out of necessity, not be choice. (I’d rather just make words.) :)
Right. Your normal users wouldn’t have old Google web fonts cluttering their Fonts folder, only fellow designers. (The first version of Open Sans was only light condensed, I guess.) As far as @fontface flakery, I’m using modernizr.js to allow .nofontface alternatives in my CSS — but it still gets fooled (iPhone 3G *seems* to support @fontface but it’s unreliable, for example).