Hi there. Designer of gist.io here. The reasoning is more prosaic. I wanted a workhorse body serif that met the following criteria: - Google web fonts. I love

Hi there. Designer of gist.io here. The reasoning is more prosaic. I wanted a workhorse body serif that met the following criteria: - Google web fonts. I love and use typekit, but gist.io sees a decent amount of traffic. I needed something unmetered in this case. - A full four cuts: I don't control the content that people post, so I needed roman and italic cuts in both book and bold weights. This cut the selection of fonts available down to almost nothing. At the time, I didn't know about Poly, and Merriweather still doesn't have italics. [Edit: realized Poly doesn't have a bold weight either, so nevermind.] The face isn't ideal, but it's grown on me the more I read it. Ideally, I'd love to license Process Type's Elena for use on gist.io.