Getting weirder with fonts, and: too much of a good thing

PP Talisman

My new “heading” font, or “cool” font as I’m calling it in the code, is PP Talisman. It feels like it could be a sibling of Ultra Hi-Gloss (my logo font).

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As much as I love PP Agrandir, it wasn’t different enough from my body text.

I needed more quirkiness

I realized that the quirky flavor of my page felt a little bit lost during my longer blog posts. I don’t want to change those, so I figured I needed to lean in harder with a funky font!

“Blog” page

I decided to make my <h3> tags bold and italic just to shake things up a bit. Given that the <h2> and <h3> aren’t that different in font size, I wanted them to be easier to tell apart from each other.

I specifically decided not to use my “cool” font for <h3> because the page felt “over-seasoned” with that much quirky font back to back lol.

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“Infobox”

Not exactly a font thing, but the colored background for my “infoboxes” has been bothering me for a while. I love the color for my footer, but it feels out of place in the middle of the page. Also, it’s a color that decreases the contrast of the foreground, which I’m not in love with. I like dotted borders a lot, and this felt like a really natural place to use them again.

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“Projects” page

The repeated bold headers with the same font felt completely overwhelming no this page. Switching up the <h3> font and using italic text (well, oblique, really), helped break up the monotony.

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“Things I use” page

The repetitive headers felt the worst on this page since almost everything was using my “cool” font (PP Agrandir, at the time), which was making it feel boring instead.

Apparently the <summary> element is seen as a button by default to assistive technologies, so the <h3> tags were being downgraded to plain text anyways… so for this one I just changed to using the <i> tag.

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I’m having fun

And what’s what matters. I hope you like the new font and other design tweaks too :) Let me know what you think.