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To some degree I think you're correct, but until there are only retina displays on the market we need a solution that works well for both. Everyone looks forwar
by ics 13y ago
To some degree I think you're correct, but until there are only retina displays on the market we need a solution that works well for both. Everyone looks forward to the day when designing a font doesn't mean spending half your time hinting for those pesky ~85ppi displays, but we're off to a pretty slow start. The first real step in my opinion is to bring real vector support to the web (now that it's reasonably well supported across browsers) but that requires designers to adjust their workflow (and preferably own their own retina displays to test with).
- bluedino 13y agoWe won't have to make fonts for Retina - we already did, they're (usually) designed to be printed which is much higher DPI than a Retina display.. It wasn't until Windows XP when Microsoft said "Let's make fonts that look great on the screen, at low resolution"
- ics 13y agoYes, that was my point (except it wasn't just XP– hinting was/is a PITA on any platform). These days we still have to make them look as good as possible on both, but if you're also targeting printed media then you're already set when high PPI displays are the norm.