Refine Your Blog’s Voice with New Fonts
Using the perfect font gives your blog personality — and just might be the design element that inspires you to find your own voice. We’ve added a bunch of terrific new fonts for users of our Custom Design upgrade from our partners at Typekit.
Infuse some retro-future attitude in your headlines with Brandon Grotesque Medium, or make your text effortlessly elegant with the incomparable Chapparal Pro:
Or, you might want to try the sophistication of LTC Bodoni 175 Italic paired with the pleasantly readable Open Sans—our most-requested font—for your body text.
Several of our new families have weights beyond the usual, letting you reach new heights of unified expressiveness. Jubilat Light for your headlines pairs perfectly with Jubilat Regular for your text:
Or, you might go for something more modern and fun! Behold the rounded Omnes Pro Black in this bold headline, and Source Sans Pro performing admirably in the text:
As the saying goes, “In with the new; out with the old!” In order to make room for these beautiful new fonts, we’ve retired some of our older, less used fonts. If your currently chosen font didn’t make the cut, breathe easy: it will continue to work just fine.
The examples above show the expressiveness of just a few font pairings in a single theme. We’re really excited to see what you can do with the power of beautiful, well-crafted fonts—old and new—across over 200 beautiful themes.
Posted: Thursday, November 7th, 2013 at 10:00 pm. Filed in Customization.
Tags: custom design, custom fonts, fonts, upgrade
Nov 7th at 10:11 pm
oh God thanks! Can’t really find the one I am really into so far. Keep them coming!
Nov 8th at 12:30 am
New fonts! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Nov 8th at 1:12 am
OMG, I already spend so much time testing out the various fonts, and now I’ll have more. I’m like a kid in a candy store!
Nov 8th at 1:42 am
Delighted to learn of new ones – can never have too many fonts. Yesyes, I know: they slow down one’s computer. But in the case of WordPress, they could only possibly slow you down, not me! [grin] Just joking …
Nov 8th at 1:54 am
Calluna is beautiful -the f and g are distinct, yet clear in regular as well as italic. Too bad it’s only for a month. Me thinks that the price per year is too much for a personal blog.
Nov 8th at 3:47 am
fabulous fonts! I look forward to using one!
Nov 8th at 3:50 am
Fonts rule!
Nov 8th at 4:23 am
Finally!
Nov 8th at 8:05 am
I like the Chapparal one. Reminds me of Castaneda
Nov 8th at 8:59 pm
Chapparal is one of my favourites as well!
Nov 8th at 7:41 pm
I do not use a custom upgrade, but a line of code:
The only problem is having to format it myself, finding where the line ends
Nov 8th at 8:50 pm
Clare, adding inline
But, only to an extent. Your technique is only effective if your blog’s readers already have that font installed on their computer. Plus, it would make it really tedious to make a change in the future: you’d have to edit every post. Custom Fonts makes the font available to all your readers, and makes it really easy to change everything in the future with just a couple of clicks!
font-familystyles to HTML elements in your post editor will indeed work.Nov 8th at 8:48 pm
What good are fonts and outstanding layout when the posts are shown in tacky pop-ups? Get rid of this “innovation” in Reader – it is in the way!
Nov 8th at 9:25 pm
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! The Reader is one of our many ongoing projects to make both reading and writing great on WordPress.com on any device. Opening posts in the Reader does mean that readers won’t see your site’s fonts, but it’s also a great way for people to discover your blog in the first place, no matter the device they’re on.
You can also click on the time at the bottom of a post in the Reader to be taken to their site instead of the popup.
Nov 8th at 9:58 pm
Thank you very much, Matt. I will use the “boottom-click” so I can see the sites in all their glory!
Nov 9th at 12:42 am
How could I not want to use a font with “grotesque” in the name. It simply screams me.