Type
In 1996, we designed the first website for a Boston-area university using one of the only typefaces fledgling web designers had available at the time: Times New Roman. We typeset our headers as graphics in Stone Sans to add some visual personality to the page, and adjusted our HTML type as best we could to get the level of control we wanted.
In the years since then, online typography has evolved at such a rapid pace, it’s hard to believe there was ever a time before CSS and the plethora of web and embeddable typefaces now available. On the web and in web applications, there’s a little ways to go in providing a precise level of control on par with page layout programs, but the landscape has changed so dramatically that there’s ...
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