Question

[james_davis_nicoll]

Which font do people consider most readable?

This is mainly with regards to e-MSes but I will admit there are LJ accounts out there I don't read except off my flist because the font they are using is unreadable to my eyes.

Comments

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Serif fonts are just too detailed for a low resolution tool like a monitor. (1024x768, or less than 100 dots per inch, Offset printing tends to be 300 DPI and up.)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm a big fan of CG Omega (which was distributed with later HP LaserJet printers). One might technically classify it as a serif font, but it's the original Greek architectural serif, flaring the ends of lines just barely enough to counteract the optical illusion of lines narrowing at the ends, before the Romans totally missed the point and turned it into a freakish exaggeration which has now bedeviled us for the best part of two millennia. I find it beautifully clear and easy to read, as clean as a pure sans-serif font, but a little more elegant and less utilitarian.