“Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels” by Alice Rawsthorn
Article: “Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels”
by Alice Rawsthorn, IHT/New York Times
“NEW YORK — Imagine that you are a super-successful movie director, who’s been given hundreds of millions of dollars and lots of whiz-bang technology to make a cinematic epic. Sounds good? Not once you are told that people will have to watch it on fuzzy old black and white television sets.
Something similar happens to the text that appears on your computer screen whenever you log on to a Web site. The site’s owner has so little control over the fine details of what you will see that the typeface in which the text appears is bound to be distorted. Pity the poor designer who struggled to perfect it.”
“…take a look at Georgia, the typeface on the IHT/New York Times Web site, on a Mac, then see how different it looks on a PC.”
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