Four Ways to Mix Fonts

I read a great article in NYT a few months ago about font designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones (the guys who brought us Obama's Gotham font), and their efforts in the brave and challenging new world of designing fonts for digital media. For example, because of lower screen resolution, they do things like chisel out little notches where lines intersect and make enclosed white spaces in characters bigger to make the font more legible. I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff.

Hoefler and Frere-Jones recently posted a four step guide to mixing fonts.

[I wonder what fonts were used in those 20 copies of the Affordable Health Care for America Act.]