Comments on: ❡ Now you try: Bello and Proxima Nova http://nicewebtype.com/notes/2009/11/11/now-you-try-bello-and-proxima-nova/ For the betterment of typographic style and practice. Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:52:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: anime http://nicewebtype.com/notes/2009/11/11/now-you-try-bello-and-proxima-nova/#comment-2061 anime Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:03:38 +0000 http://nicewebtype.com/notes/?p=1663#comment-2061 The headline type looks good. The rendering of the Proxima Nova text is terrible (Windows, Firefox). This is, as Si Daniels put it, the 'elephant in the room' that no one is talking about: fonts look different in different browsers and on different platforms, and once one strays beyond well-hinted TrueType the quality can vary immensely. A font that looks good in one browser on one platform may be almost unreadable elsewhere. This is something that would-be web typographers are going to need to anticipate and test. The so-called 'web safe' fonts like Verdana are safe not only in being installed on almost all computers, but also safe in the sense of being readable under a wide variety of different rendering systems and browsers, i.e. they are safe in a way analogous to web safe colours. The headline type looks good. The rendering of the Proxima Nova text is terrible (Windows, Firefox). This is, as Si Daniels put it, the ‘elephant in the room’ that no one is talking about: fonts look different in different browsers and on different platforms, and once one strays beyond well-hinted TrueType the quality can vary immensely. A font that looks good in one browser on one platform may be almost unreadable elsewhere. This is something that would-be web typographers are going to need to anticipate and test.

The so-called ‘web safe’ fonts like Verdana are safe not only in being installed on almost all computers, but also safe in the sense of being readable under a wide variety of different rendering systems and browsers, i.e. they are safe in a way analogous to web safe colours.

]]> By: holiday villa http://nicewebtype.com/notes/2009/11/11/now-you-try-bello-and-proxima-nova/#comment-1980 holiday villa Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:54:44 +0000 http://nicewebtype.com/notes/?p=1663#comment-1980 Your blog is great.Thx for the nice tips and keep up postings. Your blog is great.Thx for the nice tips and keep up postings.

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