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Personally, I've always found Sans Serif more readable. Maybe just that I've been trained by reading typographic blogs to like it. I would love to see what oth
by ishansharma 14y ago
Personally, I've always found Sans Serif more readable. Maybe just that I've been trained by reading typographic blogs to like it.
I would love to see what others think over this. Which font do you prefer?
- takluyver 14y agoI prefer sans-serif too. I feel like it's easier to recognise simple shapes than shapes with lots of extra lines distracting the eye. But that could just be rationalisation for a learned preference. Reading is quite a recent development in evolutionary terms - the first evidence of writing is from about 10k years ago. I wonder if different people might learn to do it using different neural mechanisms, some of them helped by serifs and others hindered.
- ScottBurson 14y agoI wasn't finding the sans-serif font in which most of the article is displayed to be particularly hard to read, but when I got to the short blockquote in a serif font, I found it noticeably easier to read. The effect is persistent for me. Have a look -- do you not have the same reaction?
- ishansharma 14y agoSame thing here. I think the line height is a bit off on the blog. But when used with proper spacing, I like Sans Serif anywhere. Even HN is using Sans Serif and its quite usable.