Re: serif & sans serif fonts

Subject: Re: serif & sans serif fonts
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:36:47 -0700

IMO the key word in this is "traditionally." Back in the days
when there were people trying to view websites on monitors
set for 640x480 and 256 or fewer colors, fonts with serifs
looked really awful, and regardless of whether they were
more legible or not san serif fonts just *looked* better. By
the time everyone using the web had upgraded to monitors
that could display any font you wanted just fine, people had
come to associate san serif fonts with "online" and serif fonts
with "print," and a website that used a serif font was perceived
as "old-fashioned." You can see this in sites that deliberately
use serif fonts because they're trying to simulate something
"old-fashioned," like a newspaper or a typewriter, for creative
reasons.

Gene Kim-Eng


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> Online documentation or Web sites traditionally use sans-serif fonts.
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References:
serif & sans serif fonts: From: Mary Elaine Lora
Re: serif & sans serif fonts: From: Pro TechWriter

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