[groovy-dev] OT: font readability (was: Fonts determine everything)

Interesting, I wasn't aware of that research.  Do you have any 
references I could read?  I'd love to learn more.

Best,
Martin

Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 07:56 -0400, Martin C. Martin wrote:
> 
>> Serif fonts are generally considered a little easier to read, the serifs 
>> help distinguish the letters visually, freeing up more of your brain for 
>> coding.  :)
> 
> Actually it depends which research you look at regarding reading and
> readability.   Of course facts often get hidden by opinion -- witness
> all the issues surrounding the fonts that got labelled "grotesque".
> 
> Certainly it is the dogma that serif fonts be used for body text of
> documents with sans serif only used for headings or display text because
> serif fonts are easier to read.  However this dogma is founded very much
> a print media and anyway has been subject to doubt with the arrival of
> the humanist fonts.
> 
>> I'm not sure how big of a difference it is, but I don't know of any 
>> compelling argument against serif fonts.
> 
> The issue here is that screen rendering is very different to print
> rendering, not to mention that displays are light generative and not
> light reflective as paper is, and this makes some difference.  For
> screen usage sans serif has come much more into its own for text since
> the fiddly little serifs don't generally render well at 92dpi or
> whatever the dot pitch of your screen is equivalent to.  Of course this
> is where the humanist fonts come in, they are in the grey area between
> serif and sans serif. 
> 

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