Type Hinting

Type Hinting:

Peter Biľak:

I have been designing type since the early 1990s, and for as long as I can remember, type designers have been saying that hinting would soon be made obsolete by new advances in hardware and software. Now, almost 20 years later, hinting seems to be more relevant than ever.

According to Peter, hinting—the process of mapping a font's mathematical outlines onto a monitor's pixels—remains relevant even with @font-face in play, which explains why it's likely we'll see f...