Open Sans, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways.

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If you’re sharp-eyed, you’ve noticed that we recently adopted Open Sans as our default typeface across WordPress.com.

Type wonks know that Open Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface. It’s elegant and sophisticated, yet modern. It’s beautifully legible, offers an excellent reading experience, and has a superior typographic range that includes accents, non-Latin characters, and more.

Click on the image below to see a before and after screenshot of the WordPress.com About Us page. The previous incarnation that uses Helvetica/Arial is on the left. Behold Open Sans, on the right:

Open Sans, designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp, isn’t just a pretty (type)face: it’s free and open source, just like WordPress! It was optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces. We know you’ll love it as much as we do!

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New Themes: Babylog and Delicacy

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Happy Thursday everybody! Today I would like to introduce you to the two latest additions to our family of themes. Let’s start first with the most adorable …

Babylog is the perfect theme for chronicling your little one’s first year (and beyond!) The playful, sweet design will take you from first smiles to first steps, and you can even customize the baby graphic to look like your own bundle of joy! Read more in the theme showcase.

Delicacy is a stylish theme perfect for food bloggers. Your image and writing will look great with Delicacy’s subtle textures and clean lines. You can also use the featured content section to help draw attention to your most delicious posts. Read more in the theme showcase.

Babylog was designed by Caroline Moore and Delicacy was designed by Aleksandra Łączek.

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Improved Publicize

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Fall is the season for changes and we’re in the spirit on WordPress.com! We’ve been working hard on some changes to the Publicize feature that we are happy to share with you today.

Publicize has only allowed you to connect to one account from another social network at a time. That makes it difficult if you want to post to two Twitter accounts or multiple Tumblogs. Today, we’re changing that. You are now able to connect to as many accounts at each service as you like.

Publicize can now also share connections between users of a blog, rather than needing each user to make their own connection to each social media service. When you initially make the connection, you will be asked whether you want to share it or not. If you do, all users who publish on your blog will be able to use that Publicize connection.

We’ve also…

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New Themes: Something Fishy and Blissful Blog

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Another Thursday, another theme day! Today, I have the pleasure of introducing you to our two newest themes: Something Fishy and Blissful Blog!

From the depths of the creative mind of our very own, wickedly-talented Caroline Moore, Something Fishy is an adventure-rich, fun and fanciful animated theme. Full of subtle details that respond as users interact with your blog, this theme will bring a smile to your face, while still providing you with all the tools you need to share your life’s adventures.

Read more about Something Fishy on the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your own site by going to Appearance -> Themes!

Looking to take a different plunge? Blissful Blog, from Blissful Themes, is perfectly designed to share your wedding day with grace and style. With delicate details and a clean look that emphasizes your photos and videos, Blissful Blog is the ideal…

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Make Your Band’s Site Sing

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Hey musicians! We just launched WordPress.com/music with two new features to help you rock the web: playlists and upcoming events.

We know that you need specific features to create a killer experience on your band’s site. You need a calendar so fans can keep track of your gigs, an easy way to embed your music, and lots of social media options to share the love. Oh, and all this on a tight budget? Check, 1-2-3.

WordPress.com has a symphony of tools you can use to keep fans in the loop and share music with them, the media, labels, and venues.

• Mobile-friendly, HTML5-based playlists (Extra Storage upgrade required)
• Upcoming Events widget and shortcode
• Social media cross-posting to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and more
• Embed music from SoundCloud or Bandcamp
• Videos embeds via YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, and more
• Show off your photos with tiled galleries
• Plus, turn it up to 11 with WordPress.com upgrades…

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