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Out of laziness, or whatever, to look for other possibilities, I almost always use the old Times New Roman for the body of text.
All that I can say for certain is definitely some kind of serif font for the body of the text, instead of sans serif.
But it seems like I've seen a trend that began, say 15 years ago, for publishers to use sans serif, instead of serif, in the body of texts more than they used to.
In the old days, we were taught to always use a serif font/typeface for the body of the text, at least, because it is "easier on the eye" (I suppose that that means that there is less eyestrain. And, it stands to reason that serif, with its points and protrusions (there's a technical name for those, but I don't remember what it is) would make the text flow easier to the eye when reading it and create less eyestrain than the block styles). Does anyone know, authoritatively and definitively if that is still the scientific thinking about the matter?
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