The Erudite 2.7.4 has been released. I made some typography tweaks, cleaned up some code, and added 4(!) new translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, German and Russian. As always, the theme is available on the project page while the gears grind slowly over at the WP Repo.
14 Comments
Yay, thanks for your efforts!
I will try it out.
I’ve just applied the theme to my blog. I love the simplicity of it all. I note that the typo base in the CSS:
body {font: normal normal normal 10px/1.5 constantia,‘hoefler text’,‘palatino linotype’,serif; background:#fafafa; color:#333; }
looks GREAT on my mac in whatever browser, but sucks on WinXP in Chrome (i.e. renders it OK). Man — I hate windows, but some readers said it looks horrible on windows.
@Lantrix I’m guessing that user has Office 2007 installed (getting them Constantia) but hasn’t turned on ClearType. Basically, an edge case. If it matters to you, you can always adjust the font stack, or use font smoothing detection to serve an alternate font stack, if you’re code inclined.
Awesome. I’ll have a look at the Javascript. Thanks!
I’m a print designer, and I love all the typographic attention you’ve given this theme. But the use of justified body type produces very wide and uneven spacing, especially in the three column format below the fold. Have you considered setting it to flush left? I’m a big fan of Eric Gill’s humanistic sans Gill Sans, and just discovered the delicate wedge-serifed Constantia, which a Google search tells me comes with Windows XP. (I’m a Mac user.) I’m good with the second font in the stack, Hoeffler Text, which is installed on my Mac. Any idea how many users are out there without one of those two fonts? I’d not be pleased to have many users end up reading the site in Times.
@Todd Agreed re: uneven spacing in the 3‑column format with justified type. This is why in 2.7.4 I only turn on justified type if the wp-Typography is active. 2.7.4 wasn’t approved for the themes directory, so you’ll have to download it here if you want that feature.
As for Constantia, it comes bundled with Windows Vista & up, MS Office 2007 (for Windows) and MS Office 2008 (for Mac) and up. It doesn’t actually come with Win XP, but Office is pervasive enough that it has a pretty widely installed base. Hoefler Text comes pre-installed on Mac OS, so everyone with a Mac won’t go any further down the stack. Finally, the next font in the stack is Palatinto Linotype, which comes pre-installed on WinXP for users of that OS who don’t have Office 2007 + installed. So, in short, anyone on Mac or Windows will not see a generic serif. An invaluable resource in this regard is Richard Rutter’s slightly outdated Font Matrix.
It looks much nicer in Chrome with Cleartype enabled under XP, but it doesn’t really matter to me 🙂
Yes. Thank you. It’s appreciated.
I love the clean design. To be honest, exactly this design has inspired me for my own blog layout (http://www.shiftedwork.de/blog/). You see the affinity? 🙂
Greetings from Germany,
Daniel
Just wanted to thank you for your gorgeous WordPress Theme! I spent a lot of time looking for a clean, crisp theme that had subtle details and wasn’t just boring black text on white. One question: is it possible to turn off the dynamic show/hide function for footer, but not the header?
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
@Bethann Sorry, but it’s both or neither at this point. Glad you’re enjoying the theme.
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the Theme. I’ve made some tweaks of my own but just updated the Theme and i’ve lost some functionality (OS is XP with Chrome browser).
I admit to being a fan of plugin’s and i’ve added a few to the site. One of which is Share and Follow. This use to show up but since the update no longer appears uner the Epigraph and at the end of the post (at the end of the post there are marginal images of where the icons normally appear).
Has the update broken the attributes of the plugin? What’s going on here?
Thanks
@Runako I can’t really speak to plugin compatibility, sorry.