I searched high and low for a font for Komodo Media. It is such a pain to find a font for your own site. I can’t tell you how many times I scrapped the font families for the whole site and started over. I can however, remember 2 fonts that I wrestled with. Initially, I started with Chalet London 60 from House Industries, which I absolutely love, but didn’t feel right for this site. I later battled with using the lovely Archer from Hoefler & Frere-Jones, which I still love to this day and want very very badly. Somehow, I was dissatisfied with both (perhaps because of the price at the time). I decided to move on.

I’d been waiting months watching Museo unveil on Jos Buivenga’s site as he skillfully worked his craft. The timing was perfect and he released his Museo just as I was finishing my site. I just wanted to throw a shout out to him for his fine work on Museo. I think it needs more praise and is extremely low-priced for such a great slab serif font. I encourage you to check out all of the weights and drool over this sweet font.

Cheers Jos! Nice work.

I came back later to learn more about em sizing and elastic layouts and it hit me:

This site is gorgeous. I can learn a lot from this stud.

Jon Tan truly is a master of typography and shows exactly how a designer can pull off a beautiful site, with very few images and a few colors. I encourage you to take a gander at the site, look around and pay attention to the details.

From ampersands, headings, side notes, his site logo (text all styled with CSS!), to his about page, Jon Tan truly is a master of CSS, typography and immaculate web design. I dig it. Go Jon! You Rock!