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Open Source highway gothic font created by Red Hat.

http://overpassfont.org/

Problem solved.

Another link: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fo...

They don't want the problem solved. They want excuses to replace signs everywhere periodically to keep the grease flowing.

Open Source highway gothic font created by Red Hat.

http://overpassfont.org/

Problem solved.

Another link: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fo...

While highway gothis was more readable than the clearview. This version doesn't help.

Though if they want to maximize readability, why aren't the using fonts with the little training wheels specially designed to make letters faster to read and easier to recognize in bad reading conditions, what's the name: SERIF fonts!

It seems to be a global mistake though.

Open Source highway gothic font created by Red Hat.

http://overpassfont.org/

Problem solved.

Another link: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fo...

>Everything looks blurry and makes my eyes water

I think that can be said for Windows font rendering.

What, exactly, is wrong with this: https://i.imgur.com/L5qoElU.pn...

That's what I see at 94dpi.

I think that's a lot clearer than "clear type" and a lot less fuzzy than Apple fonts on a standard monitor (I can't say anything about Retina displays as I don't own one, but higher /should/ be less fuzzy)

And that's with KDE. KDE used to be notorious for bad font rendering and ridiculously bad kerning. Now I prefer it over all other "standard-def" anti-aliased font rendering.

BTW, the font is Aller.

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fo...

And my monospace font is Adobe's Source Code Pro

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BMO

There are a number of fonts that are openly available, and can be packaged via fontsquirrel for you. I've done this with Inconsolata and even a CP437 font before, I tend to use it as my preferred fixed-width font. There's options out there. :) In terms of branding alone, being able to buy a brand font from a font foundry for website use would be awesome. Though I think most fonts should simply be available.

I used to use sIFR... but incompatibilities w/ IE and lots of edge-case use problems led me to switch. I was probably the most prominent bug-finder.

I switched to Facelift and even gave Cufon a whirl, but all of them had limitations that caused more trouble than they were worth when needing to build "pixel-perfect" site. Facelift adds too many HTTP requests (bad for HTTPS which can prevent caching). CuFon prevents text selection because it uses SVG, and can break complex link styling. All 3 are unsuitable for more than a line or two of text.

I've been switching over to @font-face for the last 4 months or so. It degrades nicely for older browsers, and if you set it up right it even works in old versions of IE. Try that with any other "cutting-edge" web technology. There are even services out there for creating all the necessary files.

Actually I couldn't find the name of the font that inspired me until I just booted my old desktop. The Pigiarniq font solves basically the same, and they did well.