The Rapidly Vanishing Font Software and Technology

Friday, January 13 2006

There is a growing trend towards smaller and smaller fonts on blogs (e.g. 0.60em). While it's a simple matter of customizing your local stylesheets, or overriding the font size at the GUI level,it is a bit of a hassle.. Nonetheless, it seems to be a growing belief that using a small font someone implies professionalism or academic worth.

Yet when will the cycle end?

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Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.

He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.

Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 15 years.