I found a typographic tweak over at Forrst that I had to implement at once. Adam Withcroft had hand tweaked his blog so that all his posts showed the italic version of the ampersand (&) from Baskerville even though that wasn’t his regular font. I can really relate to that kind of work.
He had grown tired of doing it by hand and implemented a automatic Baskervillification of all ampersands into the function.php and style.css. Excellent idea, I implemented mr Withcrofts tweak myself. Not that Minion Pro’s ampersand is that different, but Baskerville is a bit nicer and this tweak forces the italic version to show up everywhere.
His tweak was really simple to follow and usable for any WordPress-site that doesn’t use Baskerville italic for bread.
(Update: Xponent.se has been redesigned since this post and the tweak is no longer active on the website)
Great tweak. I am really into web fonts. There is so much that can be done for the web today. Baskerville is maybe not the first webfont I’d choose, but the ampersand is really something.