Ann, I was a bit surprised by Mark's earlier comment that this attitude is more opinion than scientifically derived Truth, or words to that effect. I coulda' sworn that I had read a couple of articles on the topic in Human Factors or IEEE-SMC a few decades ago. I did a quick search, starting and ending with Wikipedia, and found that the apparent consensus is that there is no solid evidence one way or the other.
stan On Sep 15, 2011, at 7:50 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > > On 9/15/2011 15:03, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> John, >> Some years ago, 'Technology Review' changed fonts to Arial (I believe) >> and stopped hyphenating words, and left justified all columns instead >> of centering and padding lines to justify both left and right sides. >> I find this method more enjoyable and natural. MIT, who publishes the >> magazine, claimed it was technically better for the reader. >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:36 AM, John Coyle<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Interesting discussion: a journal I edit has just been criticised for using >>> a sans-serif >>> font (Arial 10-point) as body text. My reaction was that it's a >>> modern-looking, clean and >>> easy-to-read font . >>> Any comments? >>> >>> John Coyle >>> Brisbane, Australia > > I recently read something on line where the opinion was put forth that san > serif fonts were fine / nice to read on line but that erif font's were easier > to read in print - especially newsprint sized print. I tend > to agree. Of course, I can't read 10 point in print without pain anyway :-) > > ann > > > > > >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> Paul Stenquist >>> Sent: Thursday, 15 September 2011 11:08 AM >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> Subject: Re: PESO - Healing Vibrations >>> >>> >>> On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>> >>>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>>> >>>>> I hate comic sans. Chalkboard is slightly better, but it's still a silly >>>>> font. >>>>> As far as being an imitation goes, that's true of many, many fonts. >>>>> Futura is an imitation of Helvetica, >>>> >>>> Futura predates Helvetica by about 25 years. (Arial is the imitation >>>> Helvetica.) >>>> >>> >>> Well then, Helvetica is an imitation of Futura:-). In truth, I can see that >>> arial is >>> closer to helvetica than is futura. >>> >>> My point is that many fonts differ only slightly from their bretheren. >>> There are so many >>> fonts available that choosing one over the other is usually just splitting >>> hairs. I >>> recently had to help write specs for a magazine redesign. Since i'm no font >>> expert, I >>> merely looked at what was used in the pubs that won awards. (The majority >>> of mags use two >>> fonts, with a san serif in headlines and a serif in body copy, with some >>> playful switching >>> here and there.) The resulting recommendation was adobe garamond pro and >>> arial. They are, >>> of course, totally different, so they're happy together >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
