"Tinker compared old-style and modern (lining) figures and found a non-significant advantage for old-style figures in terms of reading speed and error rate. (Od

"Tinker compared old-style and modern (lining) figures and found a non-significant advantage for old-style figures in terms of reading speed and error rate. (Oddly, modern lining figures were easier to read at a distance – on a billboard, for example. In other tests, capital letters were also found to be more legible than lowercase when set large and at a distance, so these findings do seem to agree." From: "Taking it in – what makes type easy to read and why" [1] by Kathleen Tinkel, citing "Legibility of Print" by Miles Tinker, Iowa State University Press, 1963. [1] http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/jager/typetinkel http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/jager/typetinkel