Herman Miller blog: Lifework » backlit http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework Lifework Fri, 17 May 2013 15:52:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 More Readable Fonts for Your Screen? http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/more-readable-fonts-for-your-screen/ http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/more-readable-fonts-for-your-screen/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 11:58:58 +0000 Cerentha Harris http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/?p=8935
Full disclosure: I blog on the internet. And, yes, that involves a lot of time spent reading lengthy walls of text on my MacBook screen in the name of research. So when I heard somebody had developed a font that was specifically designed to be the best for reading text on bright screens, I knew I wanted to test it out for myself, and you can too.

The awesome in-house designers at the awesome font foundry FontShop already launched Axel, a font optimized for readability in Excel (and other) spreadsheets viewed on screen. But now they’ve expanded their offerings to Azuro, a font designed to make reading walls of text on the web easier to read.
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Assuming you’re reading this on the screen of your phone, tablet or computer, you can check out the difference Azuro makes on this wordy email compared to the furniture of e-mail fonts, Arial and Verdana, in the GIF image below:
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Cool, right? If you want to get your hands on Azuro, head over to Font Shop, where you can get a set of 4 variations (regular, italic, bold and bold italic) for just $19.90, either in Web formats or in OpenType with TrueType outlines for Windows or Mac.

By Taryn Fiol

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