Web Fonts Demo

This Web page uses CSS3 Fonts’ @font-face rules and WOFF fonts. The fonts and layout of this page will not look correct in browsers that do not support Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts.

Space, time,

& type design

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Fonts are designed by people. Fonts are designed – drawn or constructed – by individual type designers.

Microsoft’s ubiquitous web font Verdana, for instance, was designed by Matthew Carter, probably the best known type designer working today. Carter has a background that stretches across nearly all the technologies of type design and production.

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Changing from one font to another makes a difference in the appearance of any text. Depending on the font, it can make a very great difference.
Changing from one font to another makes a difference in the appearance of any text. Depending on the font, it can make a very great difference.
Changing from one font to another makes a difference in the appearance of any text. Depending on the font, it can make a very great difference.
Changing from one font to another makes a difference in the appearance of any text. Depending on the font, it can make a very great difference.
But changing the font is only the beginning. You can make a paragraph easier or harder to read just by changing the amount of space between the lines. Sometimes adding a little extra space helps a lot.
But changing the font is only the beginning. You can make a paragraph easier or harder to read just by changing the amount of space between the lines. Sometimes adding a little extra space helps a lot.
But changing the font is only the beginning. You can make a paragraph easier or harder to read just by changing the amount of space between the lines. Sometimes adding a little extra space helps a lot.
But changing the font is only the beginning. You can make a paragraph easier or harder to read just by changing the amount of space between the lines. Sometimes adding a little extra space helps a lot.

Type design is a constant dialog between the constraints of technology and the needs of human reading. In the days of metal type, each character had to fit on the end of a piece of solid metal, which would be composed, locked in a forme, inked, and printed from. In these days of reading onscreen, where screen resolution is an issue, type designers take great pains to design typefaces that will look good and function well at many different sizes and resolutions, on many different kinds of display, in an almost infinite range of contexts. This is one reason why developing a usable text typeface is not a quick or easy job; it takes craft skill, technical knowledge, and hard work.