This document exists to study the various typographic implementations and variations of the typefaces used, and those that are under consideration for use, on newyorker.com. Our goal is to create a standard metric by which to judge the quality, legibility, features, and other properties of each embedded typeface. Furthermore, experimentation and testing are made easier without impacting the rest of the site.
NewYorker.com 2016
The current iteration of the website uses a combination of specialized (and occasionally inaccurate) fonts, mostly loaded from Adobe’s Typekit. Below are examples of each used throughout the site.
Irvin Display
55px. Used on The Latest, Current Issue overview, Related Stories, Daily Cartoon
Look at all of the doodads
Irvin Display Rounder
55px. Also known as NY Irvin Display DE. Variant of Irvin Display with fewer ligatures and word replacements.
Look at how fewer doodads there are
Irvin Heading
38px. Used on post titles.
A Tasteful Page Title
Irvin Text
12px. This variant appears to be used exclusively for rubrics. It's slightly heavier than Irvin Heading and less angular.
18px, 150% line-height. Another distinctive typeface sourced from print. We load four versions: regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic. Originally designed in the 18th century, Adobe has added many digital features to it as of 1990 (More information can be found here). The version we currently use online does not contain many of the typographic changes that the magazine has made for legibility reasons, such as the removal of certain ligatures.
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Georgia
18px, 150% line-height. Georgia is a default font for virtually every device, so including it has a page weight advantage. However, italic and bold versions were deemed unpalatable (especially at larger sizes), so this never served as a full replacement for Caslon on newer templates.
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Neutra Regular
14px. Neutra has many uses throughout the site; including bylines, links, and low-hierarchy titles. As far as I can tell, we only use this weight of Neutra for certain link copy.
A Tiny Link »
Neutra Demi
20px. Generally speaking, the regular weight used for headings & titles at lower visual hierarchies.
Sometimes, Page Titles Do Not Need to be Overly Emphasized
Neutra Bold
20px. Used for primary navigation links and bylines.
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Proposed
The print version of The New Yorker has differing choices for many use cases. For ones that are the same (such as Caslon), we are using outdated equivalents on newyorker.com. Below, we have manually converted original print fonts to WOFF, to ensure maximum parity for tracking, ligatures, hinting, etc. We also aim to eventually move away from TypeKit hosting for performance reasons.
Irvin Display (New)
55px. Suggested replacement for current. This is what the magazine uses.
18px, 150% line-height. Ligatures and hinting have been slightly changed to match print.
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Neutra Regular (Updated)
14px. Very similar.
A Tiny Link »
Neutra Demi (Updated)
20px. Slightly more accurate hinting means that this weight is noticably thinner & crisper.
Sometimes, Page Titles Do Not Need to be Overly Emphasized
Neutra Bold (Updated)
20px. Very similar.
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TypeKit vs Self-hosting fonts
Why do we want to move away from TypeKit? What's so bad about it?
Loads all fonts at once, regardless of use on the page.
Loads two external files at begining of page render, blocking other assets from loading.
Not subset (we use only a fraction of the characters & features included in the original files).
Our site appearance is tied to TypeKit—if it goes down like last week, so do our fonts.
What's so great about self-hosting?
Fonts are loaded on-demand—if the user has not encountered Caslon Bold-Italic on the page yet, for example, this font will not load.
All files are loaded from our own server, which does not block other asset requests.
We have direct control over subsetting and compression. This results in much smaller files (sometimes around 50% smaller than TypeKit).
First-party hosting means that we never have to worry about what is happening with Adobe's servers.
Whom else at Condé Nast has taken the time & effort to do this?
Pitchfork
GQ
Vanity Fair
Vogue
Bon Appétit
W Magazine
Condé Nast Traveler
Ars Technica
Teen Vogue
Who has not?
Wired
Architectural Digest
And before you ask—yes, the New York Times self-hosts their own fonts.
A Note: Rendering
It’s important to declare what features we are basing this test on, as this can affect presentation and even implementation of many features, such as antialiasing, hinting, and ligature support. The following properties have been applied to some text on this page:
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
This property controls the application of sub-pixel rendering on WebKit-based browsers: Safari, Mobile Safari, Opera, and Chrome. It is particularly noticeable on displays that are not high in pixel density—for example, any device that is not a recent iPad, iPhone, or MacBook Pro. Without the antialiased value, text incorrectly appears heavier than it is supposed to, unless the font file has been deliberately optimized for this scenario. The vast majority are not.
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
Virtually identical to the property above, this controls the sub-pixel rendering of fonts on Mac OS X versions of Firefox.
text-rendering: geometricPrecision;
This property applies all ligatures, and then also renders them at their utmost level of precision. While somewhat taxing on weaker devices displaying large amounts of text content, the legibility benefits seem worth it. More information on this and other values, and their effects, can be found here.
FIRST
lady of country music about to go to her grave--abusing anesthetics
(before Michael Jackson made it cool), and slamming Hillary Clinton's
outrageous slander--what Burt Reynolds did to get the two first ladies "together again"
NASHVILLE — Country superstar Tammy Wynette,
who died at home under tangled circumstances on April 6, 1998, had
become hopelessly addicted to powerful painkillers, primarily Demerol,
Dilaudid and Versed, according to a controversial new book by one of
Wynette's daughters.
"Tammy Wynette: A Daughter Recalls Her Mother's Tragic Life
and Death," by Jackie Daly (Putnam), was published on Monday (May 8),
the day that depositions were to begin in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed
against the late singer's doctor.
The $50 million lawsuit, filed by the singer's daughters on
April 5, 1999, alleges that the doctor maintained Wynette "on a regimen
of narcotic and other addictive prescription medicine."
The time of death — Wynette was 55 — was never established, and no autopsy was performed.
The book recounts Wynette's tumultuous life, career and five marriages, including a stormy six-year union with country legend George Jones.
Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh) moved herself and her daughters to
Nashville from a life of poverty in rural Mississippi, where the former
hair stylist became a country music superstar with such hits as
"D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and "Stand by Your Man"
Questionable Circumstances
Daly charges that Wynette, at the time of her death, had
developed a dependence on painkillers, which she injected with syringes.
Daly writes that after the veins in Wynette's arms collapsed, she
resorted to shooting the drugs between her toes and ultimately had a
permanent catheter inserted into her side, into which a needle could be
inserted for shooting the drugs directly into her bloodstream.
She died at home, on a living-room couch, with her fifth husband, country music producer and songwriter George Richey,
present.
The body remained there for hours as friends and relatives
came and went and everyone waited for her private physician to fly in on
a chartered plane from Pittsburgh to determine the cause of death.
Daly says that the National Enquirer knew about the
death long before Nashville authorities were summoned.
Daly writes that
she herself had been to the house earlier that day and had found Wynette
asleep — or at least totally unresponsive — on the couch, with Richey
sitting in a bathrobe, uncommunicative.
Daly quotes the call from the house that finally went to 911 at 8:59 p.m. that evening:
Caller: "Yes ... We've had a death at 4916 Franklin Road. Could you send someone, please?"
911 operator: "OK. Was it an expected death, sir?"
Caller: "Uh, it was kind of unexpected, but it was a natural death, yes."
911 operator: "Well, we have been getting several calls and
I'm not going to put this over the radio. Is this, by any chance, Tammy
Wynette?"
Caller: "Yes, it is."
911 operator: "OK, sir."
Wynette's primary physician, famed Pittsburgh
liver-transplant specialist Dr. Wallis Marsh, flew to Nashville that
night and declared Wynette's death due to a blood clot to the lungs,
although no autopsy was performed. The body was then embalmed.
Wynette's daughters obtained a court order last year to have
Wynette's body exhumed for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
The autopsy proved that traces of the drugs Versed and Phenergan were
still in her body, although no exact cause of death could be determined,
other than the expected finding of heart failure.
The daughters then
filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the doctor and Wynette's widower,
Richey. (They later dropped Richey from the suit.)
Richey recently sold the luxurious Nashville mansion where
they lived for $1.2 million.
The house formerly belonged to country
music legend Hank Williams.
Wynette died in the same room where Williams' widow Audrey Williams died in 1975 of alcoholism.
Heavy Turbulence
In one sensational passage, Daly writes that Wynette's
infamous 1978 kidnapping from a Nashville shopping mall had been staged
by Wynette herself — possibly in league with Richey.
Daly says her
mother told her she had been beaten by Richey and concocted the
abduction/beating story to explain the bruises. Her mother told her,
Daly writes, that she pretended to have been kidnapped from the Green
Hills Mall and forced to drive out of town, and then claimed to have
been beaten and dumped by the side of the road.
Daly hints that Wynette would deliberately hurt herself in
order to gain access to drugs, and once hurled herself offstage during a
concert to earn a trip to the emergency room.
During her life, Wynette
underwent more than three dozen major surgeries, primarily due to
abdominal adhesion. All of these occasions, Daly writes, triggered
prescriptions for major pain-killing drugs.
She says Wynette's drug problems were linked to her
disastrous marriages and stormy affairs, as with actor Burt Reynolds.
Only George Jones, Daly says, truly loved Wynette, but she writes that
his own addiction to alcohol doomed their marriage from the start.
I feel so badly for her. She did have a tough time. My Dad worked with her first cousin for decades. He's passed as well now. I have great memories of her cousin coming to work at the airlines and telling about her travels from the family point of view.
People have to be really careful about name-dropping on folks. We have to make sure that we don't say things that would cause us to put our foot in our mouth. (Hilary Clinton)
Click bait title. Disgusted. Stand by your man should be Hillarys entrance track just for the lols. She just projected her own issues. RIP Tammy xxxxx
Bless her precious heart. She sounds high as a kite.....
A country & western producer (who will remain nameless in this comment posting), who my parents were friends with, had worked many times with T/‘my & George. He & his wife attended a party years & years ago at their home & he said George & Tammy were heavily drinking, snorting cocaine, & arguing abt simply everything,,,,,, this was way way before the avg person or fan had any idea of George & Tammy’s addictive behaviors, and related that it was “so very sad.” Here were these to professionals- very wealthy & famous who just couldn’t seem to get it together to host their gathering without simply being out of control. He further related that urban legend carries the stories that it was George who had the out of control addictions, but it was in fact BOTH of them who did many different types of drugs mixed with alcohol that laid ruin to not only their marriage but also their lives in general. 😢 It makes me very sad to know that information. Just sharing it w/ everyone else on this blog who cares to know.... RIP Tammy, the First Lady Of Country & Western music......
Yes, we never get the real truth of how a celebrity dies. I think they want to protect their reputation in some cases. Does anyone know how Don Williams, the singer, died? The only thing I read was that he had a "short illness."
About 25 - 30 years ago I met Tammy Wynette on first class in ever plane 30 thousand feet above the ground on my way to Iceland. I cleaned my feet in the toilet room and after that, we just make beautiful love together!
The best part of the whole "Stand By Your Man" story is that, ultimately, Hillary Clinton was the one who had to suck it up (and apparently, not as well as Monica Lewinsky) and "stand by her man" and tolerate cheating to hold onto her gig as First Lady. Tammy never would have stuck around for that crap--and, unlike Hillary Clinton, she didn't ride to her place in history on any husband's coattails, either.
Ralph Emory and Tammy talk about Tammy having stayed across the street from Ryman Auditorium when she first came to Nashville and singing from a flatbed truck. Having gone to Nashville Auto-Diesel College in 1967, I remember the boarding house and sitting on the porch of that old house. I never realized that just a few short time before, the great Tammy Wynette had sat on the same porch. Tammy was my favorite female singer. Just like Jones, her songs paralleled her life.
Lovely lady... lovely songs.... and the same with her husband George... Bollucks to any thing else. It was their lives... they lived it the way they chose to.... and left us with great music...
I will always love this lady, her children, and detest Richie...He contributed to her death,,,the man didn't love hrr...Well, he took George's seconds, and tammy never loved Richie,,She was just under his drug influence, and he was injecting her. That's muder..Boy he will be judged and rot in Hell..
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In my opinion.…. Mr. Richie is a murderer and his family are thieves. Her children should have gotten everything she owned. I believe Georgette Jones was doubly ripped off. What the fck is wrong with these people taking advantage of celebrities and screwing the kids over. I believe George Richie should be buried in a poppers feild. I wouldn't waste my urine on his grave . Greed will only get u to hell and in my opinion he and those who were involved in the murder and looting including his blood relatives will burn in hell. My opinion of course! Fkng animals. I pray for her girls and grand babies !
Stories about George Jones are
like Oreos: you're never satisfied with just one. Some are hilarious,
some are heartbreaking and all of them are part of country music
history.
Jones earned the nickname "The Possum" early in his career
thanks to his apparent likeness to the furry marsupial (hopefully not
when they're hissing). When the native Texan eventually moved to
Nashville, he had a desire to establish his own club.
When he adopted the Nashville sound in the early 60s, his success
skyrocketed. He also knew that owning a club would help his career even
more. He particularly wanted a place with his name on it.
Or at least close to his name.
The Original Nashville Hangout
In 1967, Jones opened up "Possum Holler" on Nashville's famous lower
Broadway Street. Jones chronicled the 500-seat venue in his
autobiography, I Lived To Tell It All. It was the perfect
location: across from Ernest Tubb's record shop, next to the famous bar
Tootsie's and on the other side of the alley from the Ryman Auditorium,
then the home of the Grand Ole Opry.
While Jones eventually opened all kinds of venues and theme parks
with his name on it, nothing quite compared to the original Possum
Holler.
Jones let his band "The Jones Boys" become the de facto house band
when they weren't on the road. That meant anybody at any given time had a
world class band ready to play behind them. That coupled with Jones'
long list of country star friends meant an amazing concert could break
out at any time. And often did.
"There was hardly ever a shortage of talent inside the old room,
which had a high ceiling and was located on the top floor of an old
building," Jones wrote in his book. The club captured a certain sense of
camaraderie, one Jones later goes on to lament.
"The club was open during the days when Nashville's country stars
were an unofficial 'family,'" says Jones. "We hung out together. Today's
stars are so reclusive that they work entire tours together and never
see each other. In an earlier day stars struggled together financially.
Today they're rich by themselves."
Just about everybody who was anybody in town, including Saturday
night Opry-goers, ended up hanging at the club. Artists and their bands
would finish up and head down the back alley to Possum Holler and close
it down. Artists hung out and played together, and the audience got the
benefit.
Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson,
Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner, Waylon Jennings, Dottie West and countless
others descended upon the Holler regularly. The Grand Ole Opry quartet
The Four Guys would even take breaks from their own club to play at the
always happenin' Holler.
It wasn't just artists, either. Possum Holler became a hangout for
songwriters, many of whom actually pitched their tunes in the club. It
was its own concentrated version of Music Row, right downtown.
The Club Goes Down The Tube
Possum Holler's most respected and frequent visitor was Roy Acuff. He
was the only man in town whom his peers called "Mr.," a testament to
the respect he commanded. His museum, "Roy Acuff Exhibits," was the
floor below Possum Holler. And he owned the building.
Of course, all the respect in the world didn't stop the Holler's
toilet from overflowing and leaking into Acuff's museum one fateful day.
It ruined one of his exhibits. The problem was irreparable, and Acuff
had to make the tough call to close down Possum Holler.
"He was calm as could be when he told [the manager] Billy that we
would have to close the doors to Possum Holler," Jones recounted. "'But
Why,' asked Billy. 'You love this place.' 'I know it son,' he said. 'I
know it. But we just can't have turds inside my exhibits.'"
There's no good way to close a club, but that's as good as a bad thing gets.
But it wasn't the end of Possum Holler. In fact, after Jones married
Tammy Wynette and had the biggest successes of his career in the early
70s, he opened another. This time, "George Jones' Possum Holler" found
itself in Printers Alley, a spot made famous in the early 40s as the
area where everybody in news and print would hang out after work.
Printers Alley
Jones had much less involvement with the new club. His name was on
it, but he didn't own it. In fact, Kenny Rogers bought the building and
gifted it to Jones' one-time manager Shug Baggot sheerly out of the
kindness of his heart. Baggot convinced Jones to open up the "World
Famous Possum Holler," which was an immediate hit with tourists and
country fans.
And though it still attracted countless regulars, it didn't have
quite the same vibe as the original. Baggot ran it quite a bit
differently than the original, and it didn't have the same "artist
hangout" allure.
Baggot and Jones had many fond memories together, but Baggot was also
the one who turned Jones onto the most destructive path in his life.
While trying to shock Jones out of a drunken mess before a show, Baggot
gave him cocaine. It was the beginning of the worst part of Jones'
career.
Jones eventually found sobriety and recovered his career in the 80s,
though he never tried to open another club in the same vein as the
original Possum Holler. Maybe the industry changed too much. Maybe
country became too popular, making a spot where all the stars hang out
impossible.
But Possum Holler's initial success eventually inspired a lot of
country artists to open their own venues, too. While some have
been successful and some flopped, the idea of country stars with bars
persists even today. Just look at Toby Keith's "I Love This Bar" chain
for proof of that -- not to mention the countless one-offs owned by
artists across the country.
The club is another piece of George Jones lore. As always, The Possum is always imitated but never duplicated.
i was just reading about possum holler in georges book i live to tell it all.good book if your a jones fan read the book.thank you for posting possum holler videos
what a jewel off a video. Thank you for letting us in on this piece of joy.
I love tammy's look in this piece; and the lower timbre in her voice is also new to me.
Clapping my Hands!!!
WOW what a treat....Do you have more from Tammy on there?? If you have this full show by George and Tammy it would be so neat if it wound up in the right hands like the Patsy Cline Cimmaron Ballroom concert a decade ago :)
"Tammy Wynette" "Ralph Emery" Tammy Wynette Drug Overdose mrjyn "george jones" drugs versed ritchie "george ritchie" "hillary clinton" "stand by your MAN"
