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Web Typography Sucks Richard Rutter Mark Boulton RR: We re here to talk about web typography sucks - how it does, why it needn t, when it doesn t and how we can all do something about it. Let s talk about what we mean by typography...

typography /tʌɪ'pɒgrəfi/ n. 1 the art or process of setting and arranging types and printing from them. 2 the style and appearance of printed matter. 2 Oxford English Dictionary RR: Definition from the OED. It s not really appropriate - it s all about printed matter and the days of metal type. I wrote to OED and they agreed the definition is out of date and said the word is under review. What we need is another definition.

typography /tʌɪ'pɒgrəfi/ n. 1 the mechanical notation and arrangement of language. 2 Type & Typography by Phil Baines RR: Definition from typographer & author Phil Baines in his book Type & Typography. Where mechanical include all things digital and language is the conveyance of info and ideas. So why does web typography suck?

6'10" 50 49'33" MB: Anybody recognise these characters? These are primes.

6'10" 50 49'33" MB: They have a specific purpose...

6'10" 50 49'33" MB: They are not quote marks or apostrophes.

"It's a bloody aardvark!" MB: So when we see punctuation like this throughout the Web, it is wrong.

It s a bloody aardvark! MB: This is the right way to do it, using the correct characters.

- hyphen Müller-Brockmann en dash 3 6 April; 25 30 mm a phrase marker thus with spaces em dash a phrase marker thus with no spaces Doesn t sound much like a bee to me. It s a bloody aardvark! minus 4 1=3 MB: There are cultural and stylistic differences in the usage of these characters. For example the Hart s Typesetting Rules in the UK, states Em dashes should be used as a phrase marker with no spaces. The Chicago Manual of Style states an En dash should be used with a hair, or thin space, either side. The minus is a distinctly different character. It appears to be the same length of an en dash, but is thicker to match the equals sign.

RR: The Sun, a UK newspaper, has a reading age of eight years old.

RR

RR: Even they use the correct characters. Note the en dashes, quotes and apostrophes.

www.alistapart.com/articles/emen RR How do we accomplish these characters on the Web? This fantastic ALA article explains all.

opening double quote closing double quote opening single quote closing single quote en dash em dash minus multiplication ellipsis RR: Here s a brief summary of the characters and their HTML entities.

B y J O H N G R U B E R A R C H I V E S P R O J E C T S L I N K E D L I S T M E M B E R S H I P C O N T A C T C O L O P H O N D O W N L O A D SmartyPants 1.5.1 (20 KB) Fri 12 Mar 2004 What s new? D E S C R I P T I O N SmartyPants is a free web publishing plug-in for Movable Type, Blosxom, and BBEdit that easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into smart typographic punctuation HTML entities. SmartyPants can perform the following transformations: RR: SmartyPants and Textile can help automate the procedure.

MB: Ampersands. & & & & &

5.1.3 In heads and titles use the best available ampersand Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst MB

& MB: Rotis sans. One of the worst ampersands available.

{ H O M E } N O T E B O O K W O R K P U B L I C A T I O N S I C O N S H O P A B O U T C O N T A C T Hand-crafted pixels & text. SimpleBits is a tiny web design studio founded by designer and author Dan Cederholm. We create simple, readable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology. Learn more L A T E S T F E A T U R E D W O R K MTV.com XHTML/CSS development Cork d Creative Director TravelPost.com R E C E N T N O T E B O O K A R T I C L E S & Q U I C K B I T S Logo + interface design Planet Microformats A giant master feed of anything and everything tagged with microformats from Brian Suda. {02.20.07} Web Directions North I ve returned from several days in Vancouver, and the first-ever Web Directions North. It was a great trip, a great conference, and my second attempt at snowboarding in the last 20 years. S P E A K I N G E V E N T S SXSW Interactive March 9-13, 2007 ~ Austin, TX An Event Apart Boston March 26-27, 2007 ~ Boston @media 2007 (America) May 24-25, 2007 ~ San Francisco @media 2007 (Europe) June 7-8, 2007 ~ London I ll first say congrats to Maxine, John, Dave and Derek for putting on what was an oustanding www.simplebits.com MB: Dan Cederholm s SimpleBits applies the principle beautifully.

MB: Ampersands in his strapline and headings are real text, not images.

<h1>hand-crafted pixels <span class="amp">&</span> text.</h1> span.amp { font-family: "Goudy Old Style", "Palatino", "Book Antiqua", serif; font-style: italic; font-size: 110%; } MB

RR: vertical rhythm. the rhythm of reading down the page - something that is lost when sticking to the browser defaults.

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. Basic web page. an h1, an h2 some paragraphs and a sidenote. Using the default line height and margins with some font size adjustments. 12px paragraphs 18px h1 14px h2 10px side note not too bad, but text a little hard to read with the default line height - needs some leading

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. Add some leading (increase the lineheight). But still looking a bit random due to the default margins used by browsers.

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. Now showing the vertical rhythm of 18px. As you can see the text loses its rhythm as you head down the page.

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. So adjusting the margins we can this. Let s see that again...

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. 1 of 2

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. 2 of 2

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. And without the rhythm lines.

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. let s talk briefly how this was achieved. This is the science bit so pay attention. Firstly a rhythm is decided upon. In this case 18px. This works with a base text size of 12px.

body { font-size: 12px; } p { font-size: 1em; /* 12px */ line-height: 1.5em; /* 18px */ margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; } line height: 18px 12px = 1.5em set base text size to be 12px. everything related to that. set paragraphs to base size, but line height to the rhythm. Line height is desired height divided by the font size.

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. Consider the heading. Sized at 18px.

h1 { font-size: 1.5em; /* 18px */ line-height: 1em; /* 18px */ margin: 0 0 1em 0; } font size: line height: 18px 12px = 1.5em 18px 18px = 1em Font size is desired size in pixels divided by the base size (or size of parent).

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. Consider the side note. Smaller text at 10px, but still following the rhythm.

.sidenote { font-size: 0.8333em; /* 10px */ line-height: 1.8em; /* 18px */ } font size: line height: 10px 12px = 0.8333em 18px 10px = 1.8em again font size in ems is desired size in pixels divided by base size. don t be afraid of decimal places - help the browser s rendering.

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. Consider the subheading. More complicated. Set at 14px, but syncopated with asymmetrical margins.

h2 { font-size: 1.1667em; line-height: 1.286em; margin-top: 1.929em; margin-bottom: 0.643em; } font size: line height: 14px 12px = 1.1667em 18px 14px = 1.286em top margin: bot margin: 27px 14px = 1.929em 9px 14px = 0.643em font sizes and line heights follow same maths. margins similarly: desired margin (1.5 times 18) divided by font size.

Aboard Minerva off the Coast of New England Daniel is roused by a rooster on the forecastledeck that is growing certain it s not just imagining that light in the eastern sky. Unfortunately the eastern sky is off to port this morning. Yesterday it was starboard. Minerva has been sailing up and down the New England coast for the better part of a fortnight, trying to catch a wind that will decisively take her out into deep water, or off soundings, as they say. They are probably not more than fifty miles away from Boston. The forecastledeck is the short deck that, towards the ship s bow, is built above the upperdeck. Contrary Winds Daniel goes back and sits by one of the windows these are undershot so that he can look straight down and see Minerva s wake being born in a foamy collision around the rudder. He opens a small hatch below a window and drops out a Fahrenheit thermometer on a string. It is the very latest in temperature measurement from Europe Enoch presented it to him as a sort of party favour. He lets it bounce through the surf for a few minutes, then hauls it in a takes a reading. He s been trying to perform this ritual every four hours the objective being to see if there s any rumour that the North Atlantic is striped with currents of warm water. He can present the data to the Royal Society if God-willing he reaches London. Text taken from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. And the final result again.

fi MB: When a person speaks a list, they will generally use a gesture. You should aim to mirror that gesture typographically.

Component parts of DIN letterheads Besides the format, there are also standards for the placing Besides the format, there are also standards for the placing of the component parts of business letterheads. of the component parts of business letterheads. The authority for all these standards is D IN sheet 676: we The show authority examples for for all the these following standards pages. is D IN sheet 676: we show Standards examples exist for: the following pages. 1. The position of the address 2Standards. Position exist for receipt for: and treatment marks 1. 3The. Sequence position and of position the address for the main information 2. 4 Position. Sequence for and receipt position and of treatment firm s particulars marks 5. Side margin of at least 20mm 3. Sequence A standardized and letterhead, position before for the it main is written, information often gives the 4. Sequence impression that and not position enough of room firm s has particulars been left for the letter 5. Side itself. margin of at least 20mm A standardized letterhead, before it is written, often gives the impression that not enough room has been left for the letter itself. Text taken from The New Typography by Jan Tschichold This slide shows a body of text with no leading or spacing applied.

Component parts of DIN letterheads Besides the format, there are also standards for the placing of the component parts of business letterheads. The authority for all these standards is show examples for the following pages. D IN sheet 676: we Standards exist for: 1. The position of the address 2. Position for receipt and treatment marks 3. Sequence and position for the main information 4. Sequence and position of firm s particulars 5. Side margin of at least 20mm A standardized letterhead, before it is written, often gives the impression that not enough room has been left for the letter itself. Text taken from The New Typography by Jan Tschichold Adding whitespace to the text in the form of margins and leading.

Component parts of letterheads Besides the format, there are also standards for the placing of the component parts of business letterheads. The authority for all these standards is show examples for the following pages. Standards exist for: DIN D IN sheet 676: we 1. The position of the address 2. Position for receipt and treatment marks 3. Sequence and position for the main information 4. Sequence and position of firm s particulars 5. Side margin of at least 20mm A standardized letterhead, before it is written, often gives the impression that not enough room has been left for the letter itself. Text taken from The New Typography by Jan Tschichold Use position (hanging in margin, or extra lead), or prominance (different typeface) to define the list. Left margin. Your eye follows the line much easier than if there were an indent.

RR: Let s talk briefly about layout

RR: The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst is a book about typography...

RR:...with a section on layout.

RR: Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockmann is a book about layout...

RR:... with a section on typography. Clearly typography and layout are intrinsically linked.

MB: So, what is the relationship between type and layout? Let s begin with the building block of a grid; the unit. This unit is based on a rational ratio of 2:3, which is loosely based on the Golden Section of 1:1.618.

3 2 MB: Ratio of 2:3

Broken down into six blocks.

1em M MB: Lets give it a relational measurement in terms of typography. So, one sixth of this unit is 1em in dimensions.

2em 3em

3em 3em 3em 3em 3em 3em 2em 2em 2em 2em 2em 2em MB: We extrapolate out the units and add 0.5em gutters. The ratios are then retained through the grid.

7.5em 4.5em When you combine units, you can retain the same 2:3 ratio.

9.5em 13.5em

Let s make a simple grid structure.

Indent or center verse quotations When setting verse, whether on the web or otherwise, the primary concern is not to deprive it of its chosen form, including matters of spacing and visual structure We add in some type over the grid. The type size is 1em. Therefore, there is a direct relationship between the type size and the placement of elements on the grid.

Indent or center verse quotations When setting verse, whether on the web or otherwise, the primary concern is not to deprive it of its chosen form, including matters of spacing and visual structure As we take away the grid...

Indent or center verse quotations When setting verse, whether on the web or otherwise, the primary concern is not to deprive it of its chosen form, including matters of spacing and visual structure The space that is left in between the elements of type are not decided upon arbitrarily. They are related to the unit, which is in turn related to the type size.

body { } font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif RR: The fonts that are installed on most people s machines are few, but actually well designed for display on the screen, so embrace them. The standard font stack the comes out of Dreamweaver and just about all HTML & CSS editors is inappropriate.

Verdana The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. Arial Verdana appears much larger than Arial, so Arial is not a suitable back-up for Verdana. Try Tahoma instead (or Candara which we ll mention shortly). If it s not suitable, don t specify it.

Frutiger Univers 0123abcdefigHJKl 0123abcdefigHJKl Helvetica Neue0123abcdefigHJKlm Arial 0123abcdefigHJKlm

body { font-family: Frutiger, Univers, Helvetica Neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; } Why is Helvetica Neue before Arial which is before Helvetica? Because Helvetica Neue a standard install for OS X and it s hinting for digital display, particularly at smaller sizes, is much better than standard Helvetica.

Align corporate typefaces Align corporate typefaces MB Aligning system fonts with branding fonts - Meta and Trebuchet

Calibri 0123abcdefigHJKlmnopQRStu Cambria 0123abcdefigHJKlmnopQRS Candara 0123abcdefigHJKlmnopQRS Constantia 0123abcdefigHJKlmnopQRS Corbel 0123abcdefigHJKlmnopQRSt New Microsoft Typefaces shipping with Vista.

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ÿ MB: so who does what? designer? developer? front-end? information architect? content?

It s all our fault.

Richard Rutter Mark Boulton Clearleft.com Markboultondesign.com http://webtypography.net/sxsw2007/