Saturday, 27 March 2010

Client Project- Font choice

Type face- Vegur
I used this font for my website as all the current type faces on Dw didnt work for the theme of my website, i wanted a type face that looked clean, neat, simple and modern as these are a few of the characteristics of the restaurant i am designing for.
I found this font when i was searching for type faces on google
heres a link to the site


Using a font like sIFR i had 2 options
  • using images for all the text
  • or more simply using a font replacment programme
I decided to use the second as i though it would be something new to learn.
sIFR did make my site look much better, however i came up with a few issues
  • loading times are a bit longer
  • on a slower system you can see the original font before sIFR loads vegur
  • sIFR and lightbox didnt work together on PC, with the sIFR rendered text overlapping the images
  • styling the type faces were more difficult than i expected
  • EG- you cant make text LIGHTER on sIFR, you can only have it normal or bolder
  • cross broweser issues, IE had the text about 15px higher on the page than all other browsers- including firefox, safari and opera.

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