We all know that Web typography sucks, but it’s like the weather: everybody complains, but nobody does anything about it. Well, now you can. As a member of the World Wide Web Consortium’s CSS Work Group (the group the defines how styles work in Web pages), I recently took on the duty of advocate and editor for CSS Fonts (how fonts are displayed) and CSS Web Fonts (downloadable fonts). These specifications define the core styles for Web typography.

By and large the CSS specifications have not had a lot of input from designers, the very people who use them every day. Let’s change that! I’m working on the revised specifications to present at a CSS Work Group meeting in August, and I want your ideas on what we can do to improve typography on the Web.

To participate, read my blog entry on webbedENVIRONMENTS calling for feedback and then post your ideas on my blog or here in this Typophile Forum thread.

Help me Typophile, you’re my only hope!