I recently found time to update my per­sonal type­face. It’s the type­face you see on this blog’s page title and post titles. It is also the pri­mary type­face for my port­folio web­site and busi­ness cards. I first designed it in 2004 when… well, let’s just say I had a lot of time on my hands. While in grad school, I had the oppor­tu­nity to revisit this type­face design as part of my thesis project. How­ever, I didn’t have a chance to apply what I learned to the actual True­Type files. Now, finally, I have com­bined what I now know about type­faces with the spirit of my orig­inal design. I’m very pleased with the results. This web­site and my Haunts page both look sig­nif­i­cantly better. I am also in the process of con­verting my port­folio web­site design to the new type­face, and the results are (so far) very satisfying.

The other upgrade I made today was to use “sprites” in the imple­men­ta­tion of both this blog tem­plate and my Haunts page. Sprites are cov­ered very clearly in this article on A List Apart. I was first intro­duced to sprites by a fellow web devel­oper and I am really begin­ning to under­stand their use­ful­ness. The respon­sive­ness of a web page can be improved by using this method.