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Originally Posted by Hitch
The other part is ensuring that the font selection doesn't abrade the eyes, or alienate the reader. After all, Doug, would you want to read a novel in Comic Sans? Papyrus? I suspect you'd notice that, right?
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I'm assuming by your context that I'd probably notice, but ... case in point: besides hearing people complain about (or make fun of) Comic Sans, I have no idea what either of those fonts you mentioned
looks like. I know a few names like "Times New Roman" or "Arial", but I'd be hard pressed to be able to pick them out of a lineup. That's what I mean by missing a gene.
Somehow, many readers became whiz-bang fontonologists after they embraced digital text. I never new I was supposed to care.
So like I said; unless they're utterly ridiculous--as I assume the fonts you mentioned
must be, then I'm capable of adapting to pretty-much any reasonably legible font. The "wrong" body-font is typically just not a deal-breaker for me. *shrug*