READABILITY ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

This article was brought to my attention:

http://www.reidreviews.com/reidreviews/

(SEE ARTICLES AT BOTTOM OF PAGE, “A Side Note on Macintosh Computers and Text Readability” and “Zooming Reid Reviews With Macintosh OSX”)

So I turned to my favorite type guru for his expert opinion, Steve Matteson, Ascender, Corp. He was gracious enough to answer and allow me to post his response:

“Hi Nancy,

Boy you’ve really stepped in it with this one! :-) The skinny on this
link is that type on screen is truly a big fat mess. There’s a lot of
bad speculation on this blog but a grain of truth. The variation of
rasterizers is much deeper than the author initially suggests.... he
doesn’t even mention Adobe applications which override Apple and