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Stop making sans serif fonts for code! Code has to be readable. Those serifs aren't merely decoration: They're visual cues that help your eye intuitively dete

by maxk42 9y ago

Stop making sans serif fonts for code! Code has to be readable. Those serifs aren't merely decoration: They're visual cues that help your eye intuitively determine which letter is intended by a given shape. Sans fonts may look "clean" but they actually take your eye longer to read.

fancy_pantser 9y ago
"So before you go around claiming that serif typefaces are easier to read than sans-serif typefaces, you might want to do a little checking around. The embarrassing truth is, there's no solid research to back up that claim." Source with references: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-serif-readability-myth.html http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-serif-readability... One of many studies that show it's actually additional spacing that's at work when small text readability is improved with serifs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612630/