Condé Nast digital has been busy this August, launching redesigns of both WWD.com and VanityFair.com. Nothing really new to see here. They’ve even kept the Graydon Carter bobblehead on the 404 page.
I did uncover one little interesting (perhaps only to font geeks?) difference between the two sites. Both designs benefit mightily from font replacement, but only one site gets the benefit of a Condé Nast custom coded font replacement. That would be Vanity Fair. The magazine’s logo and titles uses VF Sans, a custom font. Since I assume VF is the only one with the license to use the font, it naturally wouldn’t be available on a font replacement service like TypeKit. So they had to go build the code themselves. That’s what I call investing in your brand.
