Hamilton--A Few Holiday Wishes

Two-headed Beast
This brings me to fonts, which is a two-headed beast. First, is the mundane yet maddening problem that only too few designers seem to remember to supply or embed fonts in their files, which results in Courier type, text reflows, kerning problems and headaches all around. I even saw a full-page ad in the New York Times recently that had Courier type—and I don't think that's what the client had in mind! It's hard to believe that, 15 years into the desktop publishing revolution, about 80 percent of all files still come in with pedestrian problems like this.