re Usability: Serif and Sans-Serif font faces?

Subject: re Usability: Serif and Sans-Serif font faces?
From: "nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 06:32:30 -0400


The claim seems to be that serifs make large quantities
of text easier to read. Thus roadsigns don't need serifs
and commonly don't have them. I suppose kids at the A-B-C
level aren't reading large quantities of text either.
Once they're up to "At winter I get up at night and dress
by yellow candlelight," I think they're getting serifs
already, aren't they?

I suppose that having learned the letters sans-serif,
the kids are in a position better to understand what
makes an A an A and a Q a Q without being distracted
by the peculiarities of any particular typeface.

Over here in Israel, the Hebrew alphabet as printed
in books differs vastly from the Hebrew alphabet as
written by hand, and aside from a sentence or two as
a novelty, no one would dream of using either alphabet
for the other purpose. The alphabet for handwriting,
I guess, sacrifices some readability for the sake of
the handwriter's convenience.

Mark L. Levinson
Herzliya, Israel
nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il

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