Overview of legibility research: serif vs. sans serif

Subject: Overview of legibility research: serif vs. sans serif
From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:27:14 -0400

This subject has occasionally come up on TECHWR-L, but this is by far
the best review I've ever seen of the existing research:
<http://www.alexpoole.info/academic/literaturereview.html#part2>

(David W. Matis's STC article, "The Graphic Design of Text: A Review of
Research," at <http://www.stc.org/confproceed/1996/PDFs/PG230235.PDF>,
touched briefly on serifs.)

(Thanks to Michael Brady on the PublishingDC list for the Alex Poole
link.)















































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