{"id":2830,"date":"2013-12-04T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T13:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rud.is\/b\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2018-03-10T07:53:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T12:53:19","slug":"newest-font-obsession-lato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2013\/12\/04\/newest-font-obsession-lato\/","title":{"rendered":"Newest Font Obsession: Lato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2831\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2013\/12\/04\/newest-font-obsession-lato\/the_fonts_-_lato-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/The_Fonts_-_Lato-3.png?fit=107%2C537&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"107,537\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The_Fonts_-_Lato-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/The_Fonts_-_Lato-3.png?fit=59%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/The_Fonts_-_Lato-3.png?fit=107%2C537&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/The_Fonts_-_Lato-3.png?resize=59%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The_Fonts_-_Lato-3\" width=\"59\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2831\" align=\"left\"\/>I tend to obsess over fonts and the latest obsession is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latofonts.com\/lato-free-fonts\/\">Lato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was created over three years ago by \u0141ukasz Dziedzic but I only discovered it recently when searching for something to use with my <a href=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/outage\/\">Live Maine Power Outages<\/a> visualization.<\/p>\n<p>The Lato main site provides desktop fonts and web fonts, but it&#8217;s also available at <a href=\"https:\/\/fonts.google.com\/specimen\/Lato\">Google Fonts<\/a> which&mdash;despite caving into Google&#8217;s insidious tracking&mdash;will probably make them load faster and save some bandwidth on your site(s).<\/p>\n<p>Now I just need to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.revolutionanalytics.com\/2012\/09\/how-to-use-your-favorite-fonts-in-r-charts.html\">import Lato into R<\/a> and remember that I can tweak the <a href=\"https:\/\/matplotlib.org\/examples\/pylab_examples\/fonts_demo.html\">matplotlib font config<\/a> to use it with iPython as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to obsess over fonts and the latest obsession is Lato. 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