Comments on: Sites we like: Smithsonian Channel, Glass House Conversations, and The Office of Frank Chimero https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/22/sites-we-like-smithsonian-channel-glass-house-conversations-and-the-office-of-frank-chimero/ News about Typekit Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:34:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 By: C. Spencer Beggs https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/22/sites-we-like-smithsonian-channel-glass-house-conversations-and-the-office-of-frank-chimero/#comment-1919 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:34:59 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=1763#comment-1919 Hello, Typekit. I’m the frontend Web dude who developed the Smithsonian Channel site. Thanks for the shout out.

Typekit really helped a lot for this project. When you have a dark background with light text like we do, it creates an optical illusion of the letters being thicker. The usual suspects — Arial and Helvetica — were bulky and fatiguing to read. Being able to use Proxima Nova, which is nice and thin, solved all our typographic problems in one fell swoop. Typekit is amazing. I am using it on all my projects going forward.

]]> By: Erwin Heiser https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/22/sites-we-like-smithsonian-channel-glass-house-conversations-and-the-office-of-frank-chimero/#comment-1918 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:52:01 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=1763#comment-1918 I’m getting a redirect loop on the Smithsonian site, bad link maybe?

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