Comments on: Web Font Specimen and A List Apart

By: Richard Fink

Richard Fink — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:18:33 +0000

Congrats, Tim. Hats off. A highly useful article.
Cheers, rich

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:43:17 +0000

Thanks Gonzalo! Bill emailed me; it is indeed Win+FF that he’s using. I look forward to more conversation about type rendering.

By: Gonzalo González Mora

Gonzalo González Mora — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:09:39 +0000

Congratulations for your article on A List Apart, Tim! I really liked it, and I hope we can get some sort of standard for type rendering, it’s really frustrating seeing how much different type renders across the different OS and browsers. I liked Jason’s too, but I would have liked to see a few more examples of pairings.

Regarding the body copy, I think he refers to the one on Web Font Specimen. Unfortunately (and not surprisingly), it looks pretty bad on Windows (at least on Windows 7 + Firefox 3.6b2). Most of the times, when a typeface looks bad, it will be in Windows+Firefox :( At least on Windows 7, it looks pretty decent on the other browsers (IE8, Chrome, Opera 10 and Safari 4), but it may not be the case on Windows XP.

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:45:23 +0000

Thanks Bill. Which site’s body copy are you looking at? What browser are you using?

By: Bill Davis

Bill Davis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:34:37 +0000

Tim – I totally agree that quality is a critical, and an often misunderstood aspect to web fonts.

Might I suggest you revisit the font you chose for the body copy? It looks like poop in my browser.