What font do you use??

[Netman]

Verdana here

 

Same here.

 

...and here too

[elsiegee40]

Arial is the standard for letters at school - I use it at home too, because I'm too lazy to keep switching!

[witch]

I do have a very nice font called 'Waking the Witch'

 

But then they might know I am asleep!

[srochford]

There's endless stuff about fonts on the web - as ever, some of it is good, some not good :-)

 

Some of the research I've read concerns the way people read - most people don't read words letter-by-letter and work out the word - they see the word shape and know what the word says and the shapes are better differentiated when there are serifs on the letters.

 

I think this is where the term "word blindness" for describing dyslexics comes from; one of the bits of dyslexia can be an inability to just look at print and know what the words say. Instead, the reader more or less does go letter by letter which makes it more time consuming and leads to frustration.

 

The kind of font you use should vary depending on what you're doing. On a screen at 96dpi you probably don't want serifs - they don't really work well. On paper at many hundred dpi then you can use serifs and they can help to make text readable.

 

Similar considerations apply to line length - it's much easier to follow shorter lines (eg 3 columns across A4) because you can actually take in most or all of the line in one go.

[K.C.Leblanc]

Times New Roman,

 

With Courier for quoting script.