Hinting, or screen optimising, is the process by which TrueType or PostScript fonts are adjusted for maximum readability on computer monitors. This text compares different ways of hinting (black & white, grey-scale, ClearType, DirectWrite), and explains the behaviour of fonts under different rasterisers.

Elementar is a parametric font system designed to bring more typographic flexibility to digital screens. It consists of thousands of individual fonts in a continuum of different styles, sizes, weights and widths.

Elementar is a parametric bitmap font system designed to bring more typographic flexibility to digital screens. The Elementar system can produce a virtually unlimited number of fonts along different variation axes (size, weight, width, style, element size & shape)

When using Elementar in a browser, you can specify the CSS rule to ensure that the fonts are displayed without aliasing:body { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; }