What are the Top 10 Most Popular Serif Google Fonts?

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It’s been some time since I focused a blog post on Google Fonts, so I thought it was time to do it one again. A while back I posted what I considered the top 5 Google Font combinations, but today I want to do much better and take things a bit further.

Google places their fonts in four categories — Serif, Sans Serif, Display and Handwriting.

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How to Fork My Custom Genesis Theme On GitHub

Last week during the holidays I had some downtime, so I decided to “man up” and dive head first into the pool. Until then, I used every excuse to avoid GitHub, but I finally caved.

And I’m glad that I did.

I began feeling envious of my friends Bill Erickson and Jared Atchison, who constantly flex their dev muscles by posting nicely embedded code snippets on their websites.

I wanted to be like Mike, so I rolled up my sleeves as I often do, and got my hands dirty.

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Why I Choose to Go “Bold” with My Latest Redesign

Years ago I was your stereotypical teenage punk, who spent his summers riding waves and playing on skateboard ramps. And guys like Christian Hosoi were definitely my hero.

During the winter months, we would pack up the car and spent the weekends skiing in the mountains. Heck, I was so reckless back in the day that I even rode bulls.

We had a mantra for everything we did. When we skied, it was “pain is temporary, bones heal, but glory is forever.” With other extreme sports that we participated in it was some derivative of this — which ultimately came back to the same thing. Going big.

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How to Add a Newsletter Signup Box After Your Posts

I’ve been asked a number of times how I place the newsletter signup box at the end of my posts. If you’re wondering what we’re talking about, click here and you’ll see.

Last month on StudioPress we announced that Genesis 1.9 will be deprecating the eNews and Updates widget that we include in our core framework. One of the biggest complaints and suggestions about our current solution was that it only supported Feedburner.

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