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Old 08-30-2019, 07:44 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by AliceWonder View Post
Huh, I find Clear Sans to be far more readable than the vast majority of fonts that others use. I also rather like the Liberation fonts - maybe because I've been a Red Hat user since 98 so I was exposed to the Liberation fonts very early.

Liberation Mono has a dotted 0 which many monospace fonts lack, and Liberation Mono also has all four standard variants which the majority of monospace fonts lack.

Rather interesting though that you consider Intel Clear Sans to be ugly, it is the most readable screen font I personally have encountered. At least for me. Lucida Sans is also very readable to me and is another I love, but it isn't free.
One of the other issues is that a sans-serif font (no matter which font) is not a good choice for the main font. The main font should be a serif font. New Readers and a lot of current software allow the user to choose what font to use and if you embed a main font, some software cannot override it. So please, leave the choice of font up to the person reading.
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