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The new typography

Posted Jan 17th, 2010 at 9:54 PM and seen
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The new publishing world of pixels presents striking complications to displaying fonts on the Web, according to a recent New York Times article. Browsers grow; eyes get strained; fonts become unclear and unappealing. As the Web world has evolved, typographers have worked to develop new tricks to fashion fonts for computer screens while preserving the craft’s rich history and nuance. For instance, if typographers “make enclosed spaces, like those in an ‘a’ and ‘e,’ bigger than they need to be in print.”

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 Noelle Chun

Comments (4)

Jan 18, 2010
Derek Chamberlin said...
Thanks for posting this. This was a great read for me!
Jan 18, 2010
Scott Fillmer said...
The New York Times is desperately trying to hang on to its "print", including recent news about charging online viewers to read their news. Reading without paper in hand is going to be the way we will read, there just isn't anything that looks to stop the transformation from happening. Just look at the music industry to see.
Jan 19, 2010
Nathaniel Davis said...
The challenge is good - font designers like to be pushed by constraints before it was screens it was the challenges of new printing presses or digital print technology - not to mention the challenge of printing on such poor quality paper such as the phone book - all such challenges have spawned some great fonts such as Bell Centennial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Centennial

Jan 19, 2010
Patrick Woods said...
It's great to see this craft highlighted in mainstream media. Hoefler and Frere-Jones are two superb craftsmen.

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