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Re: Overview of legibility research: serif vs. sans serif
Subject:Re: Overview of legibility research: serif vs. sans serif From:M Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:06:44 -0700
Thanks for posting this Dan. Looks like we'll never know for sure...
At 07:27 AM 7/28/2010, Dan Goldstein wrote:
>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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