After noticing that the archives are now heavily frequented i thought it might be a good idea to get rid of Cufon rendering the headlines in order to make it more STRG-F search friendly. Since i hate Arial i thought i’d give Typekit a try and check out some of those lovely fonts on the web (if you’re reading around here at the moment and wonder what’s happening to the typography, there’s your answer).

While Typekit itself is so easy to implement (just copy two lines of script to your header) and styling via CSS is a dream (having access to a font family of 7 weights rules) it’s not so easy to maintain a good quality in terms of font rendering. Rule of thumb: the bigger the type, the uglier it gets.

And i just measured that loading the script and fonts via Typekits API significantly slowed down the entire site. Such a pity. I really hope that they get rid of those rendering and performance problems asap. PLEASE!!!!

PS: The font used on the screenshot was lovely Museo Sans by Jos Buivenga/Exlibris