But it was only a “body show”; the main message of this article is. No more horizontal pixel grid! Really! From now on the horizontal grid is 1/256 of a pixel! You can shift the text horizontally by any fractional value, while the visual appearance does not change a whit! This “little detail” means a lot. How about this:

• You can kern symbols with sub-pixel precision, not worrying about introducing extra blurriness.
• You can freely scale the text as you want, with 100% guarantee of preserving a stable text layout that always fits other graphic elements.
• You can always be sure that the calculated text width exactly corresponds with what you will see on screen and paper.
• You can apply fancy vector effects such as “faux bold” and “faux italic” being sure the text will not look any blurrier.

there is really no need to still have crappy fonts on all platforms in 2007, as this article superbly demonstrates.

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