Introducing matt thomas sans
January 22, 2005
Unless you’ve never been here before or are remarkably unperceptive, I am Matt Thomas has undergone a bit of a remodeling. Note the new roomier window, with more space for my incoherent ramblings. Ogle the streamlined sidebar, which now takes up a minimum amount of space while keeping the navigational features you need. Delight in the new masthead, in glorious new colors. And don’t forget the new typeface—Lucida Grande throughout if you’re on a Mac; Lucida Sans Unicode (thanks to Jeff) if you’re afflicted with Windows. Or the oh-so-unfortunately-old-school informative a:links (links you’ve been to are a different color than the links you haven’t). Even the favicon.ico is new and improved. And to top it all off, a brand-spankin’ new Photo section, now with shorter URLs, bigger images and more pithy captions.
Oh, and that fact that it’s all valid XHTML 1.0 Strict doesn’t hurt.
I’m sure there’s a few bugs that still need to be worked out, so feel free to leave your comments and concerns below.
Perhaps, for us lowly, disgusting and vile Windows users, you could throw us a bone with “Lucida Sans Unicode” before settling with Verdana. I believe about 85-95% of us have it.
That’s what I’ve been using for my new design, but perhaps I’ll throw Grande first into the font-family lineup my Mac readers.
Fantastic, Jeff. Thanks for the suggestion. It’s beena long time since I’ve used Windows regularly, so I don’t know the fonts available to me. The difference between Lucida Sans Uni and Verdana is like the difference between…well, a good font and one that isn’t. Thank you.
And really, it’s not that I think Windows users are lowly, disgusting or vile, just their OS. Why, some of my best friends are Windows users.