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Beautiful, readable text online

Including some of the fonts he used on album covers for New Order, Joy Division, etc.

This has bothered me for a while. Thanks Joel. Of course, in our bright new high-DPI future this won't matter. Right?

Update from the far future of 2014: well, it took longer than expected, but yes, text finally looks really nice in OS X browsers.

Fontifier
Make a font out of your handwriting. Not mine, mine's terrible. But you could do it. You have nice girly handwriting, you dot your Is with bubbles.

profont
"The ultimate programming font." Pretty, monospaced. FON version supposedly superior to TTF.

Textism: Twenty Faces: Jenson
Ooh. Pretty. In its next incarnation, inevitable backlash will be distributed as a pdf, so we can all appreciate what a real typeface looks like.

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