Real Fonts and Rendering: The New Elephant in the Room – 24 ways

For the fact is, even bul­let­proof and mo’ bul­let­proofer @font-face CSS syn­tax aren’t really bul­let­proof if we care about looks and leg­i­bil­ity across browsers and platforms.

via 24 ways: Real Fonts and Ren­der­ing: The New Ele­phant in the Room.

For all the advances that have hap­pened with regards to font ren­der­ing through the browser, it’s a long road to achiev­ing what a print designer can do in five min­utes. Some­day we will be able to edit fonts and scale them up and down, and know that it will look the same on every com­puter, every device, every where, every time. That time is not today and prob­a­bly not in the next few years.

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