"Bob Flegal designed that font, and called it Cream at the time, because it was so smooth. It was an experiment to make a font with the minimum number of elements (a, c, d, g, etc. all have the same curve for instance). This turns out not to be a great idea for a workaday font, actually. We realized this after about a month. You would be looking at a browser and after a while your mind would sort of pop into neutral, waiting to recognize some words — they all just looked the same!"

Dan Ingalls