Typefaces are a new passion of mine. Wanting to start a blog, one of the things I focused were the presentation. I wanted something medium and svbtle like (big

Typefaces are a new passion of mine. Wanting to start a blog, one of the things I focused were the presentation. I wanted something medium and svbtle like (big and serifed body typeface, clean and responsive design). I found here in HN the site [1] . It is a great read, very newbie friendly and sparked my love for typefaces. While the author, like the OP's writer, mostly scorns free fonts, it gives a lot of insights on the "other stuff" like line height and width, when to use bolds and italics and smallcaps. Later I found out about google fonts and lost hours in there. I'm a big fan of serif typefaces. My favourites are Vollkorn, Merriweather, and Gentium Book Basic. I'm in love with Vollkorn, but I find that it's hard to pair it with others when used in the body. For a monospace typeface, either for display or programming I use DejaVu Sans Mono everywhere. I have a certain fascination for slab-serifs, but I dislike most os the typefaces I find, or can't pair it correctly with other. I'm still procrestinating, and my blog keeps being delayed, but here's a sample of it, if you want to take a look: [2] It was made with pelican and I adapted the theme "storm". You can check it here [3] If you want some suggestions of font combinations, my "experiments" can be found in this source file: [4] I'm still learning a lot (what the hell is a "humanist typeface"?), but I find it a lot of fun opening a website and going to the source to see the typefaces used. [1] http://practicaltypography.com/ http://practicaltypography.com/ [2] http://web.ist.utl.pt/~ist155461/blog/posts/2013/Jan/25/moai-01/ http://web.ist.utl.pt/~ist155461/blog/posts/2013/Jan/25/moai... [3] https://github.com/Vaskivo/v-storm https://github.com/Vaskivo/v-storm [4] https://github.com/Vaskivo/v-storm https://github.com/Vaskivo/v-storm