Shadwell goes Calibri-tastic

In a perfect world you’d get to choose your own screen fonts. You can — sort of — providing the person viewing your site has the typefaces you’ve specified installed on their machine. I’ve recently become glued to Google Reader but am getting kind of bored with the interface and started thinking about my ideal set of screen fonts that would replace the sad bedraggled bunch we currently have to put up with.

Dolly [underware.nl], Balance [fontshop.com/evert_bloemsma] (a Boicozine fave), Gill Sans Schoolbook [identifont.com], Akkurat Mono [lineto.com/akkurat+mono] would be ideal additions to the visual language of the wwweb. Those that can also stay: Georgia, Helvetica Neue, Futura, American Typewriter, the Lucidas. Those that have way outstayed their welcome: Arial, Times, Comic Sans, Trebuchet, Verdana.. shove off you miserable looking shabby shabblers. Yay to the new Cleartype fonts too [ascendercorp.com]. There are already some appearing in shopfronts around the YCN [ycnonline.com] office in Shadwell (the default face being Calibri as displayed above)…