Letterpress styled text seems to be quite a popular typographic trend and I’ve been positively struck by the way it’s displayed on Tyler Thompson‘s blog because I think in this case it really helps users with reading negative text.

Tyler, creative director at Squarespace, simply applies the css3 text-shadow property, that’s been available in Safari since the first release but, when it comes to other browsers such Internet Explorer from 6 (which is a real pain in the ass) to 8 and Firefox 3.5, seems to fail.

For those who don’t know how this property works here you are an example:

H1 { text-shadow: 2px 2px 3px #000; }

There are four parameters involved: shadow’s right shift, bottom shift, blur and color. Pretty easy, isn’it?