The Essentials of Font Philosophy

I'm prejudiced against certain fonts. Like others, I'm a product of my environment; I was raised to believe that fonts with tails were superior to fonts without. sans-serif fonts are better for reading from computer screens. As it takes about 25 percent longer to read from a screen than it does from paper, san-serif fonts, like Arial, Helvitica, and Verdana, reduce the drag. No tails make it faster and easier to read. The back lighted and margins (white space). Though pages with smaller margins read faster than pages without, the disorder the lack of margins causes is stressful for the reader. In this situation, clean outweighs speed. Besides, speed takes away from comprehension. Not all sans-serif fonts are created equal. While one study shows that the font attractive, but Phil Renaud's informal hypotheses, Renaud believes "Myspace users are twice as likely to be arrested for embarassing things than the general population." Tag: | document.write("Email Murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web