As Paul Virilio has recently noted , it is time itself that is rendered instantaneous by virtuality. And thus, at this turn, computer fonts illustrate a break in traditional notions surrounding temporality, and representation. Font faces appear at the intersection. They are the veneer of representation. The font is always the first thing you read and the last thing you write.
Fonts have no body.
They buffer the act of reading. They protect the reader from the shock of virtual transfer. And fonts are those elements that are so commonly not read. Fonts are closely connected to textual standardization and thus the very nature of the internet. By far still the fundamental computer language used on the internet, HTML and the browsers that interpret it constitute a quantitative structure of exchange that both directs textual or discursive flow, and regulates its dissemination - if that indeed is the manner in which it is distributed.