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To: Scott Lux who wrote (14063)1/27/2001 4:30:31 AM
From: Bill Ulrich  Read Replies (5) of 32883
 
Scott, Serif typefaces:

Visit your bookcase or local library and grab a dozen regular-size books. Betcha none of the body text is written with sans-serif type. The very reason the publishing industry uses serif type is because the individual serifs aid in character recognition.

Sans-serifs are great for short blurbs, advertising taglines, instructional help text, and the like. Novels, however, can't be read this way. Remember, threads are novels—people read them 20-50-100-150 pages at a sitting, night upon night. This type of eye exercise relies on completely effortless character recognition.

Re-inventing reading—or the wheel—is ill-advised here, as the publishing industry has been fiddling with this stuff for about 400 years. They've got a pretty good headstart, ever since that Gutenburg chap.
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