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Subject:Re: sans serif fonts From:Tim Ryan <Tim_Ryan -at- RADNET -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:01:38 -0400
hej hej,
> Someone else--I think it was
> Pat Gantt--said that she had
> understood =
> that research showed sans
> serif fonts to be more
> readable. I've read =
> that too, somewhere. She
> wasn't making it up.
I did my thesis in college on
online readibility and
comprehension, and
most of the research I saw and
came up with showed that...
a. online text reads faster
when it's sans serif
b. online text comprehension
is virtually the same for both
sans serif and serif.
People are getting the gist,
but it takes them longer with
serif. (And with
online material, longer
usually means
more-likely-to-look-elsewhere.)
Tim Ryan
radnet, inc.
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