Font Font Revolution

I just watched the latest Channel9 interview with the Microsoft ClearType team. Strangely, I enjoyed every minute of it. I never realized I would be so fascinated by an hour long video about typography. I had no idea of what goes on behind the senses when fonts are rendered to the screen.

I can honestly say that I've never given ClearType a chance. I've guess I've gotten used to the crappy rendering I've grown up with. So now I'm going to give it a try. I turned ClearType on and tweaked it to my liking (with the ClearType PowerToy).

The new font, Consolas, that ships with Vista seems very cool. A good monospaced typeface like Consolas is important because lengthy on-screen reading while programming can quickly tire the eyes.

Here is a link to an article that discusses all of the new fonts included with Windows Vista. If you still can't get enough typography, I suggest checking out fontblog.