DOH! Re: [WEB4LIB] Fonts and Zoom utilities
David Merchant
merchant at bayou.com
Mon Nov 16 12:33:10 EST 1998
At 08:35 AM 11/16/98 -0800, Donovan Lambright wrote:
>I believe I remember reading somewhere that sans serif fonts like Arial
are easier >to read on a computer screen than serif fonts like New York
Times. The opposite is >true of text on paper-New York Times would be
easier on the eye than Arial. It has >something to do with the serifs, I
think.
I think you are right, this makes sense. Also, I have to admit that I was
writing before I had my coffee (and this shows me I'm needing coffee way
too much, that's not good) and misread things, reading "sans serif" as
"serif".... Sigh.
TTFN,
David
Systems Librarian
Louisiana Tech University
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