While working with the Green Park 2 theme by Cordobo, I was awe struck with the native typography. It usually requires a lot of work and graphic (or javascript work around) to achieve anything as brilliant looking. Upon looking at the CSS I found the reason for the drop dead beautiful type, and that is that it uses the Myriad Pro font for its titles. While a good and clean looking choice, the requirement on the user to have such a high level designer font is unreasonable. Feeling there there must be some @font-face friendly font to embed, I stumbled upon this glorious font called “Vegur”.

The Vegur font is not a perfect copy of the Myriad font created by Adobe Systems, and suffers from the alignment issues with the site title in the header; it is acceptable for users who lack the needed commercial fonts. Next on my list is to find a replacement for the Helvetica Neue that is used for the body text … though I don’t believe I even have that installed on my computer at the moment.

wilki.me [ Myriad Pro goes Open Source ]