March 22, 2005

While Some would say that Web Typography still sucks. I would say it isn't a big issue. The average web user notices nothing strange about serif or sans-serif fonts compared to their favorite magazines unless pointed out to them. Although I do highly agree that it is either too complicated or too much work to include the font of your choice in a website.

This is of course is a blessing in disguise as 1,000,000 geocities members would soon prove by using fonts like Bullet Holz or even worse Kefka.

This Article on Using CSS to Embed a font has another danger listed. The font must first be downloaded before the page will be seen. In a world of high-speed internet, this wouldn't be a problem, sadly we aren't in that world yet.

It's just another case of trying to figure out "Is this something we really need or not?". As a designer I think not, Images and flash can get our messages across with minimal use of a 'designer' font. The text on web pages are easy enough to read with what's available, no reason to complicate matters. As a web surfer, the answer is also no, I don't want to waste my time deciphering someone's font choice.

Comfortability breeds clarity.

- Posted by Rick at March 22, 2005 08:57 AM | TrackBack