links for 2009-05-06
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Andy Clarke on Leading in CSS
"And there’s the problem with CSS, right there. Different typefaces, [...] designed with different x-heights, need different amounts of line-height."
(tags: Andy-Clarke CSS CSS3 Measurement Typesetting Web-Typography Nice-Web-Type)
It's not a "screen font" any more
Reading this post from Thomas Phinney is like trying to learn from your dad while he does home repair: spurts of deep knowledge that you have to decipher for yourself. "Heck, Mac OS X isn't even capable of using the bitmaps from the font suitcase for screen display [...] so the 'screen font' isn't used on screen, and the 'printer font' is used both on screen and on printers."
(tags: Thomas-Phiney Font-Creation Screen-Fonts Outline-Font Font-Suitcase Bitmap)
A Brief Comparison of Font and Background Colors Rendered Across Major Browsers in Mac OS X
Shawn Blanc finds that anti-aliasing varies based on OS, typeface, and browser rendering engine. Plus, "a final point of nerdery: beyond anti-aliasing differences, each browser also has its own opinion for kerning as well."
(tags: Shawn-Blanc via-Bruce-McKenzie Rendering Browsers Safari Firefox Mac-OS-X Web-Typography Nice-Web-Type Interpretation Anti-aliasing Kerning)