DesignByNumbers

It’s hard to know - if we had a wider choice of fonts on the web, would it encourage better designs? Perhaps. It will also increase the ability for those users who loved the BLINK tag to create pages far more horribly designed than we have seen so far. Think of all those home made flyers & posters using the Comic Sans font. I don’t think that font can look good in anything other than comics.

But I have to concede that these atrocities should not result in the punishment of those designers who would use them wisely. There is still a long road ahead for font support on the web but as a web developer my vote is for more options than less.

Read about the history and state of web fonts here: CSS @ Ten: The next big thing

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