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For me it was efficiency of reading. It is proven that proportional, serif fonts read significantly faster (17%) [1] or [2] (6.1%). Also, in my opinion, scannin
by edejong 8y ago
For me it was efficiency of reading. It is proven that proportional, serif fonts read significantly faster (17%) [1] or [2] (6.1%). Also, in my opinion, scanning is much faster.
This makes sense: our eye uses the top and bottom of words to ‘key’ the word. Use proportional and you add information to this system.
[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/comparing-font-legibility/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/comparing-font-legibility/
[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/001872088302500303 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/001872088302500...
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