Italics in Fira

Hex's Lupino Serif, which is what I've set this website in, is a beautiful font—but doesn't have an italics variant just yet. Up until now, I'd just been using the brutal forced italics that browsers display when using font-style: italic, but I wasn't pleased with that solution.

Instead, I've chosen to use Fira Sans for the italics, and I'm offsetting it in a jaunty accent colour! Trickier still, I've set the font-size to 1.05em, since Fira is visually just slightly smaller than Lupino. Maybe that's against the rules but it's my website.

I don't put much stock in handwriting fonts, but LiebeHeide by LiebeFonts has so much care put into it, such focus on the details, such clever ligatures to distinguish, say, an e on its own from an ie, that I can't help but love it.

The twist that hitting the backspace actually just crosses out the letters, rather that perform a traditional backspace, is the icing on the cake.

LiebeHeide, LiebeFonts