Re: Usability: Serif and Sans-Serif font faces?

Subject: Re: Usability: Serif and Sans-Serif font faces?
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 18:05:38 -0400


Dick Margulis wrote:
> Bonnie Granat wrote:
>
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>>
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>> It is the serifs themselves that aids reading by guiding the eye
>> almost subliminally to the next letter and acting almost as a frame
>> (like a picture frame) for a letter.
>>
>
>
> Urban myth. Put it out of your mind.

As background for someone who sought basic knowledge about what
purpose serifs served, it is not an "urban myth." It's historical
fact. The issue under discussion in my post wasn't whether, in fact,
one style is more readable than the other, but the basic facts that
are pretty clear in their reality *historically.*

Bonnie Granat
www.granatedit.com





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RE: Usability: Serif and Sans-Serif font faces?: From: Solena . LEMOIGNE
Re: Usability: Serif and Sans-Serif font faces?: From: Bonnie Granat
Re: Usability: Serif and Sans-Serif font faces?: From: Dick Margulis

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