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"Times" font isn't "unstyled", it's styled to a newspaper, which I've found o be easy to read in a newspaper and hard to read on a website, I don't know why, bu
by daveheq 10y ago
"Times" font isn't "unstyled", it's styled to a newspaper, which I've found o be easy to read in a newspaper and hard to read on a website, I don't know why, but it has nothing to do with one being "styled" and another not; in fact, serif is more "styled" because of the serifs.
- mbrock 10y agoI think Times New Roman, if you just fix the line height and page width, can be beautiful, legible, and familiar. Random example: Frank Chimero's site renders with Times New Roman body text on my Mac, since I don't have Minion Pro or Calluna which are prioritized before Times in the stylesheet, and it looks lovely. http://www.frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/ http://www.frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/
- kqr 10y agoTimes is designed to fit many characters into narrow columns (think newspaper), and that's the layout it's most legible in.
- fiatjaf 10y agoThat's not what he meant. He said people have learned to relate Times New Roman with unstyled websites, so when they see it, they think "unstyled".