Credit: Technology Review

Compared with the world of print, the Web is a typographically impoverished place. It was built to display the fonts that users already have loaded on their computers, which in practice means the 10 "core fonts for the Web" that Microsoft started bundling with its Windows operating system in 1996. A few of these fonts are admirable--Verdana and Georgia, for example, which were designed by Matthew Carter specifically for the computer screen. But as the Web grows more sophisticated, and as the need to improve on-screen legibility becomes more urgent, they are far from sufficient.

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