The software colossus signs up to sponsor standardization of the Web Open Font Format technology. Support in IE9 looks likely. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Monotype, one of the world’s biggest typeface companies and owner of Helvetica, is looking to change the way we view fonts on the Web. The company is today announcing a Web font platform that runs on ...

If there’s a topic that’s bound to get designers riled up into a fiery debate, it’s the issue of choosing the best font for reading to use on the screen. For most of the web’s life, designers haven’t ...

Web design has certainly come a long way since the first HTML files were published, and Cascading Style Sheets have given designers lots of freedom to specify typefaces, sizes, and styles for text.

While Web publishing continues to challenge the printed page as the primary means of sharing text, in one aspect it still lags way behind Johannes Gutenberg's 500 year old technology: Web developers ...

In Apple's Safari web browser, there are several ways to make viewing web pages easier on the eyes. All of them involve adjusting the font size or the zoom level that Safari applies when it loads web ...