It is a few months late, but since I still get lots of traffic from it, I thought I would post an update on the font Vegur. For some reason the font was removed from FontSquirrel. The font is still freely available and has since been updated to version 0.601. There is a noticeable difference between the 0.5 version that I linked to before. The update features cleaner lines and a stronger line weight.
If you are a fan of the font you can still download it from the creator’s website, dot colon.
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 ]