As an example, a well designed house is one large enough for its inhabitants, stylistically equivalent to its culture and strong enough for its environment. A well designed typeface is appropriate for its use and its final usable form appropriate for that use or device. This document is about the final usable font. It is not a definition of how to use or design a typeface. This document also is less concerned with the artistic decisions in creating letterforms than it is with creating a usable, functional solution for written communication.
Type is a tool for communication Type is the single most used method of communication.
Most people are not aware of this fact because type is usually doing its job by delivering and not distracting from the message. To continue to do that job digitally we must consider that the solution for a printed document is very different than the solution for a low resolution screen. These images may be derived from the same source but the final images seen are NOT the same thing. The rules and design decisions made for the printed high resolution images need to be keep separate from those of low resolution devices. A new set of rules needs to be adopted for these new devices.