Devolux 2010 » General

On Fonts

Devolux — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:11:44 +0000

I have changed the default font of the jQ theme options from “Sans-Serif” (which was mainly Helvetica) to “Serif” (which is Georgia). While I much prefer serif fonts – and especially Georgia – I’ve always had a sans-serif font in the default styles of my themes because I believe that most people rather like fonts such as these. This used to be Verdana and later Helvetica.

What is your opinion on that? And which fonts do you prefer? (Georgia)

What is your opinion on that? And which fonts do you prefer? (Times)

What is your opinion on that? And which fonts do you prefer? (Bookman)

What is your opinion on that? And which fonts do you prefer? (Helvetica)

What is your opinion on that? And which fonts do you prefer? (Verdana)

What is your opinion on that? And which fonts do you prefer? (Arial)

What is your opinion on that? And which fonts do you prefer? (Monospce)

What is your opinion on that? And which fonts do you prefer? (Comic Sans)

What is your opinion on that? And which fonts do you prefer? (Courier)

What is your opinion on that? And which fonts do you prefer? (Impact)

As you can see, this is not only a question of personal liking but also of technical concern regarding font sizes. And there’s one more thing important to me when styling texts: the line height, adjustable with the CSS property line-height. I usually use a value of 2.0. This is the double default value! I think that makes text much more comfortable to be read. And it also looks better since it gives free space to the appearance of a page.

jQ 3.0 coming

Devolux — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:39:31 +0000

After the theme was down for some time over the turn of the year, it is now back on the featured list on WordPress.org in version 2.9. While there haven’t been many new features since version 2.4, the next version 3.0 is subject to rather big changes. I already have introduced threaded comments (have a look) and compressed the header image from 300 KB to 3o KB. Also I plan to go through the entire code and to delete all lines which have become unnecessary over time.

jQ ideas:

removing of the green template
a smooth shadow for the outline
new toggle arrows
more…?

Future versions of the jQ theme might as well include these features:

a jQuery supported content slider
an option to adjust the font size from the back-end
the possibility to include a custom header image
multiple sidebars

All that is to come at the earliest in version 3.1.

The site’s back

Devolux — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:10:37 +0000

Hi everybody,

the website is back after after a long period of displaying nothing but empty screen. Though the content is available again I’m not sure about my future activity on this blog and on developing WordPress themes in general. However, this will figure out soon and the support for the already existing themes will be continued anyway.

For me there are two possibilities: either I invent a whole new concept for a third theme which I will in that case start up all from the bottom – or I reduce my work concerning web design on the mere support of my existing work in the near future.