Seeing this project to its completion would ultimately lead to a far greater adoption of advanced web typography and a better looking web in general. See [0] for the original announcement on Typophile and the discussion that follows.
As you may or may not know, there is a big issue with how bad a lot of fonts look in Windows-based browsers and this project is meant to address this issue by automating and simplifying the process of font hinting [1], which is essential to making a font render decently on Windows.
Seeing this project to its completion would ultimately lead to a far greater adoption of advanced web typography and a better looking web in general. See [0] for the original announcement on Typophile and the discussion that follows.
As you may or may not know, there is a big issue with how bad a lot of fonts look in Windows-based browsers and this project is meant to address this issue by automating and simplifying the process of font hinting [1], which is essential to making a font render decently on Windows.
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[0] http://typophile.com/node/84404
[1] http://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting