<strong>Update: After wise advice below we've now reverted to the original Georgia scheme, since we don't want the site to look too different in different browsers. Am leaving this post here so that anyone who experiments in a similar fashion can understand the restrictions.</strong>

The latest update to the Wordpress theme for this site, <a href="http://www.pagelines.com/" target="_blank">the excellent Platform Pro,</a> now has the ability to tap into Google's fonts store and let you see this site using a wider range of fonts that is usually available for the web.

As someone who came from the world of print, where fonts are ten a penny and infinitely changeable, I've always found the restricted number used on the web a bit odd. Though after all these years... perhaps not.

Anyway, the site is now experimentally switched over to Google's font API, using their own Droid sans for headlines and Droid serif for body text. It looks OK to me, but then it's early in the morning here. If any of you experience problems do please let me know (I doubt you'll see much change on a phone, iPad or Internet Explorer by the way).

This change does make the body text bigger and more readable. Again, as an old printie this to me looks on the large side, but then people always tell me what I think is a good size for web text is actually too small. No one will agree about this kind of thing of course so I am not looking to set up the site design by committee...