Since the World Wide Web’s earliest days, whether you were shopping on Amazon or researching on Google or catching up on news at latimes.com, chances are you were looking at just one of four typefaces — Arial, Verdana, Georgia or Times — each formulated for computer monitors and trusted by web designers to display properly on your screen.
In other words, a seventh-grader writing a book report on Microsoft Word had more font choices than the person designing Esquire Magazine’s website or the IKEA online catalog. But now that is about to change.