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Re: Online fonts and sizes

Subject: Re: Online fonts and sizes
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:49:59 -0800

Steve Hudson wrote:

As TNR and Arial have been rumbling in the jungle for a while now - the
overwhelming consensus is... vanilla or chocolate dude?

In other words, people choose what's familiar.

As to how to find what's really more readable, I don't think you'd have to resort to New Guinea tribe members; anyway, by the time they were ready to take the test, they'd be almost as influenced as everyone in the industrialized world. I suspect that tracking eye movements would tell the tale. Withlout this sort of external verification, the test assumes that what people think is happening is true - and that often isn't the case

Interestingly, the one font designed for online - Verdana - doesn't come
CLOSE (about 15% (approx 1 std dev) down).

The one font? Excuse me being pedantic (but it's a role I'm comfortable in), but there's dozens of fonts designed for online use, and others that have been redesigned for online use. Verdana wasn't even the first.


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