Fuzzy thinking and sharp type
FOR MANY YEARS now I've been aware that people designing for the web are interested in type being "sharper" on the screen. Customers have contacted our shop saying that logos, buttons, and whole fonts needed "sharpening". I think, they think, there is some magic hole that one can put a typographic image into, turn a handle, blow off the dust, and the fuzziness will be gone.
No timetable
for the readability wars
AFTER A FLURRY of discussion about the Microsoft proposal on EOT font embedding, I have some further thoughts on the subject of screen fonts.
Getting in bed with type
THERE IS FRESH word from Redmond that after all these years we may be able to get more typefaces onto web sites.