pixels


A pixel (picture element) is a single point in a raster image, the smallest unit of picture that can be controlled.

Articles 1

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.
Tutorials · 17 May 2010 · English · 1920 words

Blogs 4

Vienna International Airport opened a new extension of the airport which more than doubles its size. Typotheque developed a custom version of Fedra Sans for the Airport.
2 July 2012
Typotheque also offers a free iPad app. The Elementar App is an innovative, intuitive way to select parametric bitmap fonts just by swiping to browse through the thousands of combinations of heights, weights and styles.
6 June 2011
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.
19 May 2011
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)
2 July 2009

Help 1

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; }