Fresh new font for Fall '22In the first of what will likely be many tweaks to this site’s design, this week I’ve decided to try out Fira Code throughout to replace the various humdrum fonts that shipped with the Jekyll template.
Recently I’ve been experimenting with fonts specifically designed for coding in my text editors of choice - both at work and in my free time - and this free option is actually quite good, especially the ligatures and glyphs.
Does this make it an ideal web font? Not necessarily, but given the MARC-esque design I’ve chosen for my CV and the fact that it’s the main focus of this site I decided to give it a whirl.
This is also the first time I’ve used WOFF fonts in a personal project. So far, so good.
Fira Code doesn’t sport the extensive character set support of Microsoft’s Cascadia Code, for example, but in my brief trial period it’s really grown on me.
This might be a gateway to more expensive alternatives (indeed, I went down this path after being bombarded by ads for a different font that shall remain nameless on social media) but only time will tell.
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Initial blog postThis is a test post for my new site, which is powered by Gibhub Pages’ Jekyll features.
The design and layouts were originally based on jmcglone’s Quinlan, which proved to be an excellent foundation on which to build and tinker.
Over time I expect that this site will change significantly, but for now my aim is to use it as a test bed for experiments with static site generation, especially as I become for familliar with the Liquid implementation in Jekyll.
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