Here is a comprehensive article on font hinting by Peter Biľak a very respected Typographer: http://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting http://www.typotheque.c

Here is a comprehensive article on font hinting by Peter Biľak a very respected Typographer: http://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting http://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting "[font-face] also raises new issues, including poor onscreen display of non-hinted fonts. And because hinting is tedious, time-consuming and widely believed to be nearly obsolete, 99% of all fonts, even commercial ones, are non-hinted."