Typophile

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today macromedia announced flash mx 2004. they are claiming:

"Small, But Clear, Text"

is this the end for tiny flash pixel fonts?

also flash mx 2004 will now support CSS text formating.

any thoughts?

-jm


unknown

What does it actually look like, exactly?

hhp

unknown

we will have to wait and see...

once the product is released and you upgrade your flash player to 7(the beta is available now) then we will start to see stuff.

i am curious if this is going to hault any further development of small pixel/screen fonts, that most recently have been turning up all over the place(miniml.com, fontsforflash.com, etc)

-jm

unknown

Here's a bit more info on the new aliased text feature:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/features/static_tour/text/index.html#05

It's difficult to say for sure, but it looks like it may actually make pixel fonts work better than they do now. We shall see.

unknown

Full fuzz. Ick.

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