Posts Tagged ‘typography’

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

News Bulletin: The Internet Says Hello to Typography

Will it be love at first sight or a bitter, bitter marriage with no possibility of divorce?

Pandora’s little black box is about to be opened. Soon, very soon, most common browsers will support the @font-face CSS directive. Web designers will have at their disposal any TrueType or OpenType font that legally allows for web embedding. What does that mean to you? Well, brace yourself for a web full of unreadable, kooky typefaces, messy grunge fonts, and lots and lots of imitation handwriting.

And that's not all. Designers will want to use commercial fonts that are meticulously designed with readability and balance in mind. Unfortunately, because the directive requires that the font file be downloaded by the client machine (and therefore accessible to anyone on the web), the use of said fonts will constitute a legal violation. So the fonts we hate will be given free reign while the fonts we love will remain private treasures.

That having been said, there is a bright side. I have a few predictions: Reputed foundries will release free, ... READ MORE»

Tags: font-face, typography
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