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Originally Posted by jswinden
I'm the same on my preference for serif now that device screens have the higher resolutions needed to view them. I remember reading a scholarly article back in the 1990s where studies were conducted to see what worked best for reading on computer monitors. One thing the study indicated was that lower resolution (common on monitors in that era) made reading serif fonts much more of an issue than reading sans serif fonts. They found that people generally preferred serif fonts with printed material (higher resolution) but preferred sans serif fonts for low resolution monitors because of the decrease in eyestrain. But that is no longer an issue with most new devices as they tend to have a much higher resolution than the old 72 dpi (Apple) and and 96 dpi (PC) computer monitors.
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It could be that this is just out of habit, but I don't like using a computer set up to use serif fonts. It looks weird. I don't like material printed in sans serif fonts. It looks bulky, unelegant, and unprofessional, especially if someone uses a big fat font such as Verdana, Arial or Helvetica. That I "can't use" such a computer or "can't read" such material is a bit strong, but it just looks... wrong.
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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Right now we get 6 named fonts, 8 point sizes and 3 ways of displaying them (black on white, black on yellow and white on black). That means we have 144 different ways to display eBooks. If one adds to that 24 levels of lighting, that works out to 3,456 combinations of fonts, sizes, colors and lighting.
That should be more than enough for everyone's taste.
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If one does not like the font to begin with, all other combinations are moot.
Futura: unreadable for me.
Caecilia and Caecilia Condensed: I think they're blocky and unelegant.
Helvetica: Non-Serif font, and it's ugly too.
The only Kindle fonts I like are Palatino and Baskerville, but they are too thin to read comfortably. If I wouldn't use my own embedded font, I'd use Caecilia Condensed because it's the least crap of the remaining options. At least, the Condensed version does not look as blocky as the normal one.