This site has been in continuous operation since 2003. It has moved platforms several times.
Current platform
This site is currently built on the Ghost platform using the Tuuli theme from Biron themes. I mostly inherit typographic and layout design choices from the theme, although I do make some changes uninformed by any very well-developed design knowledge.
However, I have certainly enjoyed swapping fonts in and out and I have become more interested in fonts and font choices – in a very non-initiate way – since moving to Ghost (see my discussion of Ghost and of fonts). Of course, I am not doing anything very elaborate with them, as I am staying within the reasonably simple blog structure.
Current fonts
The current combination is Nan Holo (for headings and callouts), Nan Holo Mono (for captions), and I have been rotating between Aeroplan, Nan Tragedy and Nan Serf (for body text). Several are from, you guessed it, the Berlin-based Nan foundry and the Nan-less one is from international foundry TypeTogether.
Font history
Here are some that have been on the site for reasonable amounts of time, and may be switched back in from time to time.
Body text
- Aeroplan
- Messer
- Nan Tragedy
- Piazzolla
- Rowan
Headings and accents
- Nan Metrify
- Phantom
- PolySans
- Token Mono
Platform history
This blog began in 2003 on Typepad. It was eventually moved to an internal instance of WordPress at OCLC where I worked, and then to a hosted WordPress at Libchalk. It now has over 1900 entries together with associated material. With the heroic assistance of Brian Pichman of Libchalk, I moved it to Ghost in 2021. There are occasional glitches in older entries, and unfortunately we lost the comments.
Coda
I write about the font ecosystem with some example references to choices made by National Libraries here:
Here is a rather long and ponderous review of Ghost written a while after I moved to it. I should do another, now that I have more experience.
Updated: 7 July 2024.