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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Oct 1, 2017 07:23 PM UTC:

I now have a combination of fonts I am happy with for the main body and headings. The body text will be either EB Garamond for wide screens or Volkhov for narrow screens. Both are good looking serif fonts that bear some resemblance to each other. For example, both let the capital M stretch its legs, and various other letters bear a close enough resemblance to each other. The main difference between them is in their color, which is a typography term referring to how dark or light a font is. To illustrate what this means, bold text is normally darker than regular text. Garamond is a thin, old style font. It has class and looks good when it has enough space. Volkhov appears too dark on a full-size monitor, but being darker makes it very legible on a small mobile screen. So it gets used there in place of Garamond.

The first and second level headings use Germania One. This is a dark Roman typeface that has a medieval look to it without actually being Blackletter or Fraktur. The medieval look seems suitable for Chess, and being a Roman typeface, it is more legible than Blackletter or Fraktur would be. This font is more eye-catching than a sans-serif, yet it has enough elements of a sans-serif to contrast well with the serif body text.

The third through sixth headings use Francois One. This is a dark gothic/grotesque sans-serif that matches Germania One in color. This match in color allows it to fit well with Germania One. But being a sans-serif helps it distinguish the lower headings from the top headings, and since the lower headings use smaller type, being sans-serif helps make it more legible at the smaller sizes it is used in.


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