If you enjoy typography here are a couple of links to bring a smile to your face.
First of all is the famous "So you need a typeface?" infographic.
(The original author has his website here : http://julianhansen.com/)
Next up there are the really hilarious shorts by college humour called Font Conference and Font Fight.
And if you have 50 minutes here is a nice talk by Rob Conery and Scott Hanselman with Bill Hill (the creator of cleartype) that you are sure to enjoy.
And if you want to have a deeper understanding of why typography matters here is "Magic of reading" by Bill hill in Microsoft Word format : www.billhillsite.com/osprey.doc
(Source http://billhillsblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/magic-of-reading.html)
Here is a short description of how cleartype works:
For a detailed discussion Wikipedia has an excellent article. Also interestingly WPF renderes all text in cleartype. But so does every windows by default starting from Vista.
Enjoy!
First of all is the famous "So you need a typeface?" infographic.
(The original author has his website here : http://julianhansen.com/)
Next up there are the really hilarious shorts by college humour called Font Conference and Font Fight.
And if you have 50 minutes here is a nice talk by Rob Conery and Scott Hanselman with Bill Hill (the creator of cleartype) that you are sure to enjoy.
And if you want to have a deeper understanding of why typography matters here is "Magic of reading" by Bill hill in Microsoft Word format : www.billhillsite.com/osprey.doc
(Source http://billhillsblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/magic-of-reading.html)
Here is a short description of how cleartype works:
For a detailed discussion Wikipedia has an excellent article. Also interestingly WPF renderes all text in cleartype. But so does every windows by default starting from Vista.
Enjoy!
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