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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You may have heard rumblings of a new theme called Metro which we released yesterday on the StudioPress blog. The very first noise that was made came from me about a month and a half ago when I redesigned my site with a similar look.

Many folks who follow me on Twitter knew it was coming back then, as I cryptically tweeted out the (now) infamous “Oops, I did it again…” thing.

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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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Nearly 6 months ago I purchased a 15″ Macbook Pro with Retina Display, and after a few days of using it, I returned it to get a brand new 13″ Macbook Air.

At the time, I was madly in love with the Air’s lightweight design, and the portability that it had. To be honest with you, there was no doubt that I’d ever use another machine again.

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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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