I’m the Euphoric frickin’ Llama.

I’m no expert on typefaces. In fact, my design skills generally suck. However, after reading Sebastiaan de With’s article on Helvetica, I started to notice the font (and its bastard cousin, Arial) wherever I went. I changed Firefox’s default sans-serif font to Lucida Grande over Helvetica and suddenly, Wikipedia went and looked a whole lot better. Unfortunately, Google insists on using Arial for all its web pages (for old browser-compatibility, perhaps?), and it really started to piss me off. So much so, in fact, that I decided to change it. I’d heard of Stylish before, and decided to finally install it. So here’s my Stylish script to fix Google:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("google.com"), domain("google.co.uk") {

    body {

        font-family: "Lucida Grande", sans-serif !important;

    }

}

If this isn’t a reason to use Firefox over IE/Safari, I don’t know what is. Now go, install Stylish, and fix that butt-ugly website. Oh, and if you’re a Windows user, use Lucida Sans Unicode instead.

Tags: arial, google, helvetica, lucida-grande, lucida-sans-unicode, stylish, wikipedia

This entry was posted on Sunday 20th April, 2008 and is filed under Coding, Computers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.