typographic design for new reading spaces
About a decade ago, I addressed an audience of typographers at the Atypi conference in Lyon, France, with a question: why do type designers invest so little research and creative energy in the computer screen as a medium and in designing fonts for it? The usual answer was that the screen is not worthy of their detailed skills until it can match the high definition and resolution of printed matter – which won’t happen in their life time. While that remains to be seen, it was in my view not the only or even the most pressing problem.