A typeface is a family of fonts. Fonts are for instance Palatino.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface

Right?

On comparing with the old one, I think the lack of black border does, indeed, make the smaller image look less cluttered.

I'm curious, does this new rendering also look good on the Tarmak mini-gif?

I think it's a fine improvement.  The artifacts on the sides of the keys are still there, though less noticeable now that there are no borders - could you do the same thing as with the other image to fix them?

So I suppose a sample signature might be:

"Slow and steady wins the layout race" -Aesop's Fables

Slow the animation down if possible.

Sorry, it never gives me enough time to rest my eyes on it.

Perhaps that isn't the point.  A link through to a page with each iteration would probably be more beneficial.

Or possibly one faster transition followed by something slower followed by a still.

How's it now? Longer dwell times on each step, and a smoother fade-out. I prefer to dwell the longest on the most colorful step as it's so pretty! :)

I don't think this image should be considered a real learning aid, if that's what you're after pinkyache. As Lalop says, it's more of a sig animation and/or an eye-catcher. As such, it can't be too slow either.

The looping is typical for that kind of thing. Can get irritating, true – but as we don't actually have sig pics here it's mostly a moot point. Also, I guess it's good that it moves more slowly then.

How exactly do you suggest it should flip more slowly back? Earlier I had it dwell on the colorless Colemak but as Lalop points out that gets annoying. I could let QWERTY have a longer dwell time, or have the whole transition from colored Colemak to QWERTY go even more slo-mo?

The new dwell times are mostly good, but some of the transitions were slowed down along with them, which makes it look jarring (not enough frames per second) when you're looking directly at them.  I think the original transition speeds were good (though something in between may also work).

The last short dwell time (with the all-black colemak) is the only one I'm not sure about.  I guess it is pretty cool and adds a sort of "teaser effect" to it.  As pinkyache points out, though, the quick switch can be confusing if you don't already know what it is.  I'd like to also see an alternative version where all-black colemak has the same dwell time as all-color.

P.S. I'm actually planning on using the sig pic on other forums, so even if we don't notice it here it's still important!

The effect of the last black frame was pretty cool.  It gave me an impression of finality (i.e. that the gif is looping back to the beginning), much better than the previous ones.  Try to preserve that effect.

With the exception of the 2nd-last, full color -> black transition, all of the transitions were pretty smooth as far as I could see.  With that 2nd-last transition, I'm not sure whether or not it aids the above effect.