Resolution, Exhibit A (of A-Z)
THE FOLLOWING IS a requested response to Bill Hill from its author to me.
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.
Screen Fonts: An Abbr. Hist.
THE TEXT ON this site has caused a certain amount of heat, and I wanted to get my partner at the Font Bureau, David Berlow’s thoughts on the direction of screen fonts. We’ve been hearing about ClearType, and CoolType and other things, but the type on the web sites seems largely to have stayed the same thing, with the only thing improving is the displays. I should not have been surprised that David was not only thinking, but working on this problem, and with this entry, he brings us up to date.
Interview: Opening shots in
the Second Font War
A SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT from Berlow: An on-screen font solution that may save our eyes from being ruined by reading too many web sites.