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Originally Posted by TechniSol
I'm more inclined to agree that words have shapes which aids in recognition, not that by seeing a larger than one line area of text you're able to process outside that line in any meaningful way. I believe it's been demonstrated that fonts with serifs speed recognition.
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Many moons ago I was a tech writer and so came across the claim that serif fonts are better for reading. I found this interesting as at the time, a lot of the reading I was doing was on screen and stuff I printed form the web. So predominately sans-serif.
I asked on a couple of mailing lists for references to studies on fonts and reading ease, but nobody could point me to any (and I never looked further). Anyway, this is just by the by.