Cleartype Team - Typography in Windows Vista | scobleizer

warren
atom heart mother

Khamul wrote:
PS: Why do they all start with C?

Bill Hill answers this in the video: It's because they're all fonts designed for ClearType, so they started the names of all the fonts with C to go along with that.

warren
atom heart mother

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Aptly Goodie
Wholly Tomato

Here's another (better?) comparison between ClearType (top) and Mac (bottom):

jorgen_veisdal
http://google.com

Cantara has fantasic readability, I use it on my blog, and I can't wait till it goes mainstream.

rasx
Programmer/Analyst III, Emperor of String.Empty

What did the Romans ever do for Queen Boudica? Why would Tolkein "waste" years of his life creating a fantastic pre-Roman past? The word fascism comes from Rome---not because they discovered something foreign and had to find a name for it---no fascism is something Romans knew for themselves.

leighsword
LeighSword

Many Chinese websites I have tried, it was apparent that ClearType(明瞭字体) doesn't work.
In my option, TrueType(真字体) is more comfortable to my eyes, but I don't know is the ClearType better than TrueType for my eyes? I mean less 'harmful' than TrueType.
The video showed us a good air-condition at first, it's funny, I almost think the video made in months ago , or there are tons of freak guys worked in MS, you know, freak guys always can make some unimaginable and cool stuffs.

BambooWave

You would not think an hour of talk on fonts could be made so interesting, but yes it is.

Some beautiful font designs, especially the Japanese characters. Computer font design was not something I had really considered, but it plays a crucial and unsung part in your whole Human to computer interface experience and so on your productivity and enjoyment.

Bill said something like current monitors do not yet have a high enough resolution for great font rendering. Current monitors (e.g. my laptop 1280*768) are a roughly similar resolution to the new High definition (HD) TV resolutions, so are we eventually going to see mega high resolution TV/monitors s one day ? 6000 pixels width and above ? How high a resolution do you need to go to before an extra DPI becomes redundant for the human eye?

I once saw a green CRT display with terrible fonts, how things change.

Bill Hill should have his own documentary series. More Bill Hill please.