Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea

Verdana, a Nirvana for the eyes

Gen posted a link with a nice long list of bloggers over at Microsoft. Thanks to Safari’s tabbing feature, I managed to scan every blog rather efficiently[1]. It was apparent that many were working on web-services and web-related protocols (particularly XML). One that particularly caught my eye was Brian Keller’s blog, with a post about ClearType and Verdana. I have never really studied the art of fonts and typography, but am under the impression the field has a much larger market here in Japan than in the U.S. due to the considerabe character-set. I was also surprised to see the story of Verdana (the font). I’ve always been a fan of Times New Roman, but I’ll have to try out the next few documents in Verdana.

[1] For work. Really.