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Subject:RE: Typeface for print and online documentation From:david -dot- locke -at- amd -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:15:39 -0500
Actually, the preference for serif fonts came to you in that "See Spot run"
book. The readability of serif vs. sans serif is culturally bound. You learn
it from your parents and peers, and from the abundance of it in your reading
environment from the moment you are born. There is no right answer. There is
what you are used to.
The same readability studies conducted on foreign readers would yield
different results. Any studies you come across will be culturally specific
without saying so.
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