Re: Font Selection Methodology

["CB Casper" <knowone -at- surfy -dot- net>]

I recall seeing, on some website I neglected to bookmark,
a discussion of how people read. It discussed our ability
to 'read', or determine a word by the shape of the upper
half of the word, when in lowercase, or initial uppercase.

In an extension of this, we apparently read in chunks, 
not discrete words, unless the wording is not familiar, 
thus more time is needed to read unfamiliar text.

I would like to see research on the difference of this
ability using serif or sans-serif fonts. Anyone know
where more information can be found?

I had this occur to me while watching a sub-titled movie
recently, where the lower half was cut off the lower end
of the screen. I saw the movie later with all of the 
sub-titles properly viewable, and it was not much 
different to read.

CB 
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