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.

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:

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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Dave over at Grain Edit just posted about a House Industries competition to win a tour of the Eames Case Study house in the Pacific Palisades. It marks the release of House Industries’ Eames Century Modern font collection. They will be drawing three names for the tour which will be hosted by Eames Demetrios and Lucia Atwood, grandson and granddaughter of Charles and Ray Eames.

Date: March 11, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Location: The Eames House. Pacific Palisades, CA

To enter just follow this link, fill out the catalog form and type the words EAMES HOUSE into the COMMENTS box. The winners will be drawn on February 19.