In reply to What do newspapers need in their typefaces?:
Repeating myself:
a text face in general can't be optimal if it looks too nice when used for display
You need a certain ugliness in this case*. I admit many people don't agree with that view. But to me the fact that scale changes everything is a no-brainer.
* Same sort of thing that happens for example with the binocular "g" in any text face; if it's too pretty other more important things are going wrong.
hhp
