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Subject:Preferred Font for Online Documents From:"Alciere, John" <jalciere -at- LTNPO1 -dot- XYPLEX -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 5 Oct 1995 13:48:00 EST
The majority of the documents that my group produces use New Century
Schoolbook font for body text. New Century looks good when printed but,
being a serif font, does not look so good when viewed online through Adobe
Acrobat.
As an experiment, I changed to a sans-serif font, Arial (essentially
identical to Helvetica). Contrary to my expectations, Arial looked even
worse than New Century when viewed online.
I would appreciate any recommendations for fonts that are easy on the eye
when viewed online. At this point, I no longer have any preconceived
notions about sans-serif fonts being preferable to serif!
