https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172713
--- Comment #36 from Verhoeckx <[email protected]> --- A few points: * It's disappointing to read that it has been decided not to change the default font of Writer at the moment. *Keeping the current Liberation Serif font makes the application incosistent with LibreOffice Impress en Calc. * A common mistake is that serif font are more legible than sans serif fonts on printed media. This is simple not true. It's a fallacy and an 'urban legend'. According to research there is no difference between the readibily of sans-serif vs serif fonts on printed media or on the screen. One of those researches can be found here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-90984-0 * Keeping the serif font hurts the adoption of LibreOffice, because this way the application looks outdated. It's also inconsistent with Microsoft Office. * Microsoft Office is by far the most uses office suite in the world, has a sans-serif font, thus most documents in the world are printed with a sans-serif font. This is also not a problem, because a sans-serif font is not less readable than a serif font. Don't forget that Microsoft has probably hired a font expert to make this decisions. * Does anybody in the Community of LibreOffice know a proven font expert? He/she could tell what is true and what isn't. He/she could also tell us on which criteria to choose a font. * Other criteria than influences the readibily of a font more: * Font size and line height * Distinguishability between letters that look the same (i, l, etc) * Spacing between the characters and words * Are the open gaps of letters clearly visible? * So the choice of a font is not about serif of sans-serif. It's all about the readibily and what you want to express with font. Do you want to express a modernity? Use a sans-serif font! Do you want to give something a more historical perspective? Use a serif font. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
