Thanks for noticing! Some background:

Pinside has been displaying all text in the typeface "Verdana" ever since we launched. But since that is a Microsoft copyrighted font, and not generally available on Linux/Android devices, I have decided to make the switch to the *very similar* open source typeface: "Open Sans". Edit: We are now using DejaVu Sans.

I put this operation off for a long time, due to the sheer amount of work involved, but I believe it's essential to ensure things look the same on all devices (and making my UI designing life much easier).

Feel free to send me screenshots of anything UI issues related to the font change. I.e. things that "look odd" or illegible or where you generally feel that the font needs work.

Thanks!

Good point. There was some huge redesign work done to the Marketplace listings, to make them more responsive on mobile. I must have messed up that color, I believe it was blue before?

Glad you like that!

The initials are supposed to be a Dot Matrix font. So something is messed up there - let me look into that

That depends on your phone screen size and settings. On most phones it will be at the top right. But, for example, on a Galaxy S8 I think it will just about jump to the first position of the second line. And with the new font, the slight variation in size might have just triggered it to move over a bit more. Sorry about that!

Another day, another update. I received quite some response after yesterday's type face change. This included a few PM's from folks who disliked (the) change and/or who were having issues (especially on Microsoft Edge, which was rendering the font a bit bolder than on other browsers I tested with).

So thanks for all the passionate people who took the time to write me about that

I want to make Pinside look and feel the same on all devices. For 20 years, Pinside has used Verdana as our main type face and there was no reason to change this, except that this typeface is not available on all platforms. For example, it's not on Android. And with the increasing amount of Android phones out there, the site just looked incredibly different there which was making it hard to do UI design and testing for this one-man dev team

So, why not include Verdana as a @font-face you (web developers) might ask? Well, turns out that licensing fonts is prohibitively expensive for web use. I looked into licensing Verdana and this turned out to cost around $500/mo *per variation* for our current pageview count (8M/mo).

Last night, I got some suggestions for a typeface that resembles the 'previous' Pinside look better than Open Sans: DejaVu Sans. This font was derived from Bitstream Vera and, unlike Verdana, it's free to use commercially.

I really like DejaVu. Some fine tuning will continue for the days/weeks to come, but hopefully this new type face look will satisfy most of you!

Ugh, I can imagine that drives you nuts. I'm not seeing that multicolor antialiasing. For me it looks like this:

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You're very right. So do you have any ideas that could help improve the font display? I believe the issue is mostly on Windows (27% of our visitors).

Nail, meet hammer!

That's an entirely different topic. But please do PM me your suggestions, I'm always happy to accommodate!