Dartblog

One of my little avocations is typography. In the declining months of my time at Dartmouth I whiled away happy hours delicately crafting curricula vitae for friends. When I hired a designer to reimagine Dartblog, I spent a tremendous amount of time with him on which typefaces the site should use, the air each one created, and what message was telegraphed by their weight and spacing. I am pleased to pronounce the typesetting complete. As witness, the lovely hed above.

Dartblog’s display typeface is Village, first designed by prolific American type designer Frederick W. Goudy in the thirties. Goudy’s métier was the creation of newspaper typefaces with slight imperfections which created a genuine, human appearance while remaining authoritative and easy to read. Village was one of Goudy’s more mature designs. In 1994 Village was reinvigorated digitally by David Berlow on commission from Esquire magazine, of which Village became the visual brow. When Dartblog was redesigned, I acquired from The Font Bureau a license to use Village in the titling face, in italicized small-capitals. You can see the result above the silhouetted mountains at the top-right of your screen. And just yesterday we added Village’s standard-bearing Roman display face as the headline font, and the implementation is now complete.

Pretty, no?