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I'm wondering why they chose a serif font as the default, given their rendering on low-res screens (as most were at that time) is pretty bad.
by askvictor 5y ago
I'm wondering why they chose a serif font as the default, given their rendering on low-res screens (as most were at that time) is pretty bad.
- eropple 5y agoI've wondered this before, but never found much concrete--except that being picky about rendering serifs on "low resolution" screens is a very modern thing in itself! My intuition is that it comes from books/newspapers and nascent desktop publishing universes; sans-serif fonts being used for large amounts of body text anywhere, on paper or not, is relatively new as a mainstream thing. (That isn't to say it never happened, just that it's historically rare.)