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Web typography discussion

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

I had a good conversation with Michael Wood yesterday whilst I was writing up a document on why I felt our design team, going forwards, should be using Cufón instead of sIFR for text replacement. Michael pointed me in the direction of a couple of sites that were inspirational to him and put forwards the argument that he has read too many times the cussing from web designers complaining about the lack of typefaces available that are considered web safe. Safe fonts are those that are regular system font installations for either PC or Mac. Those same web designers that complain could in fact vastly improve the typography of their sites by learning typographic skills. When looking at their personal website and sites that are in their portfolio it is clear to see that they haven’t mastered the art of type setting for the web.

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Tags: cufón, font, gutter, kerning, leading, line-height, michael wood, sIFR, system font, typeface, typography, web safe font
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