{"id":23147,"date":"2012-08-14T15:15:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/screen-optimized-fonts-look-cheap-on-the-retina\/"},"modified":"2012-08-14T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:15:16","slug":"screen-optimized-fonts-look-cheap-on-the-retina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/screen-optimized-fonts-look-cheap-on-the-retina\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen-optimized fonts \u201clook cheap on the retina MacBook Pro.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cameronmoll.tumblr.com\/post\/29407176145\/retina-fonts\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">cameronmoll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2012\/08\/pixel_perfect\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fonts optimized for screen rendering look cheap on the retina MacBook Pro \u2014 sometimes downright cheesy \u2014 in the same way they do when printed in a glossy magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Great fonts, intricately designed for high-resolution output, aren\u2019t just allowed, they are necessary for a design that truly sings on this display. In fact, if anything falls down on the software side, it\u2019s Lucida Grande, Mac OS X\u2019s system font. It was a stellar choice by Apple in 2001 and has served ably for more than a decade, primarily because it renders so crisply through Apple\u2019s anti-aliasing algorithms. In short, Lucida Grande renders better than most fonts on pre-retina displays. But on the retina MacBook Pro, it looks like what it is: a font optimized for low-resolution displays. There\u2019s a reason you seldom see Lucida Grande used in print.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Curious to know if this sentiment extends beyond the Lucidas and Verdanas to include webfonts, too. If it does, I worry we might see the type industry do an about-face with all the webfont optimization that\u2019s taken place the last few years \u2014 just as it was beginning to hit critical mass.<\/p>\n<p>(I don\u2019t own a retina MBP and would love to hear your opinion over on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cameronmoll\">the Twitter<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cameronmoll: John Gruber: Fonts optimized for screen rendering look cheap on the retina MacBook Pro \u2014 sometimes downright cheesy \u2014 in the same way they do when printed in a glossy magazine. Great fonts, intricately designed for high-resolution output, aren\u2019t just allowed, they are necessary for a design that truly sings on this display. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-61l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}