If you have tried to use regular print fonts at small sizes for Web page elements, you will undoubtedly have been disappointed by their poor quality. If you use anti-aliasing, small fonts look blurred and if you don't they become jagged and unevenly spaced.

Anti-aliasing is intended to smooth the edges of fonts on-screen and works fine at larger sizes but when the type is only one or two pixels thick, the whole character is subjected to 'smoothing' and suffers badly in terms of definition, crispness and readability.

 

With anti-aliasing turned off, small fonts that are designed for relatively high resolution print devices lose all their subtleties of spacing and kerning in addition to gaining unsightly staircased edges.

 

The mini fonts on this site are designed especially for the screen. Like terrazzo tiles in a mosaic, they are designed on a strict grid - exactly the same grid as the pixels on your computer screen.

Each 'tile' has to be a certain fixed size and must butt-up to its neighbor exactly. This means that you can't scale them, they have to be used at their designed sizes, or exact multiples. It also means that you have to work in pixels and not in traditional points.

Anti-aliasing is intended to smooth the edges of fonts on-screen and works fine at larger sizes but when the type is only one or two pixels thick, the whole character is subjected to 'smoothing' and suffers badly in terms of definition, crispness and readability.

 

If you need to use small fonts for navigational elements, navbars and buttons or for discrete captions or legal copy, don't compromise your design with printer fonts that were never designed for the job - use a MiniFont!

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MiniFonts are intended to be made into GIF graphics or vectorized in Flash movies. They are unlikely to be available on user's computers and should not therefore be specified for general HTML or CSS text.