diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6722182..a739bed 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ there's already [powerline](https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline), why yet anot
 *  it's small.  i want the entire plugin to be less than 200 lines as a rule
 *  gets you 90% of the way there: in addition to all the standard goodies, supports [fugitve](https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive) and [syntastic](https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic)
 *  integration with [vim-bufferline](https://github.com/bling/vim-bufferline)
-*  it's fast.  since it's so small, it only takes 0.6ms to load.  by requiring python, powerline needs 60ms on the same machine.
+*  looks good with regular fonts, with support to use powerline font glyths
+*  it's fast to load.  since it's so small, it only takes 0.5ms to load.  by comparison, powerline needs 60ms on the same machine.
 
 # why's it called airline?
 
diff --git a/plugin/airline.vim b/plugin/airline.vim
index 82c28f0..2e712a9 100644
--- a/plugin/airline.vim
+++ b/plugin/airline.vim
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 " powerline symbols:       
 " some unicode symbols: ▶ » « ◀
 if !exists('g:airline_left_sep')
-  let g:airline_left_sep=exists('g:airline_powerline_fonts')?"":"»"
+  let g:airline_left_sep=exists('g:airline_powerline_fonts')?"":">"
 endif
 if !exists('g:airline_right_sep')
-  let g:airline_right_sep=exists('g:airline_powerline_fonts')?"":"«"
+  let g:airline_right_sep=exists('g:airline_powerline_fonts')?"":"<"
 endif
 if !exists('g:airline_enable_fugitive')
   let g:airline_enable_fugitive = 1