Re: Fonts?

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Quoting Janet Swisher <swisher -at- enthought -dot- com>:

> The fonts that are most readable on screen are those designed for on-screen
> readability. Specifically, Microsoft's Verdana, Tahoma (both sans serif),
> and Georgia (serifed) are designed for readability at low resolutions.
> readers find sans serif text quite readable because they are used to it.
> Even "blackletter" typefaces (think of pre-war German texts) score as well
> as other styles for readers who are familiar with them. 

Undeniably, Microsoft's on-screen fonts are one of the things that the company
has done right.

However, my own all-time favorites for on-screen readability were designed
before the rise of the computer: Adrian Frutiger's Frutiger and Univers. Both
have very regularly shaped letters, and could hardly be improved if they had
been designed for the screen. If you do a web search, you can easily find
samples of both and see why they work so well.

-- 
Bruce Byfield 

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