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These Fonts Here
Google Fonts integration with WordPress (and a convenient Gutenberg block) has changed web design for the better. You can now easily choose from 700+ free fonts to type-up your webpage.
Check out a few of my favorites and why I chose them for this site.
If it were up to me, I’d always write in a font like Garamond (or the pretty well-done bastardization offered here). But it’s not a good font for the web. It’s not chunky enough for good legibility; even on paper it can be a tad effete. So I kept looking for the basic content font for this site.
Now here’s a web font! Avería Serif Libre is chunky enough to be legible on a screen. It’s serifed, but barely, and it has a slightly blurry appearance that lends personality. The reason for this is amazing—it’s formed by averaging all the serif fonts in Google’s font collection! You can read all about it here. As a probabilist, how could I resist?
Avería Serif Libre is the basic content font for this site.
I loves me some condensed sans serifs. Open Sans Condensed (here in the 300 weight) is the font for all subheadings (in ALL CAPS). The Open Sans collection is an excellent sans font that goes well with everything. The condensed version is tight, but legible, and the 700 weight makes a good heading font.
The default heading font for the theme (Ixion) is Archivo Narrow in ALL CAPS. It still appears in menus, buttons and featured content because I haven’t gotten around to changing the CSS. It’s a good font, especially if you’re stuck with it.
I chose this one for the header, because it looks FAST! Also, when I’m in a hurry I sign my email -=C
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United Academics Flyers
I’m kind of proud of these despite the fact I threw them together in about 30 minutes from pre-existing parts.
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Math Pictures
The set of polynomials of degree 4 with all roots on the unit circle, and inscribed easily described regions.
Large resultants of families of polynomials generated as in Dobrowolski’s Lemma (which leads to the best known lower bound for Mahler measure as a function of degree).
The eigenvalues of a real random asymmetric matrix with iid normal entries.
I’m not sure what this is, but it’s interesting.
The zeros of Wronskians of consecutive Hermite (and other classical orthogonal) polynomials are pretty wild.
Pair correlation in the scaling limit near the real edge in Ginibre’s real ensemble.
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The Math Blob Grows!
Click to take a closer look.
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