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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'm trying to find out how this preference for sans serif came about given that pBooks used serif fonts long before there were eBooks.
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Unless you reconfigure things, on your computer pretty much everything is using sans serif; web pages, the ui, apps, whatever. And prior to that magazines all mostly used sans serif. It's what people are accustomed to, and now serif fonts look stodgy and old fashioned.
But I think it's interesting that printed books, fiction, still use serif fonts.
A similar change in taste/convention is that almost all of the books you get from Project Gutenberg (i.e., old and out of print) use Roman numerals for chapter numbers. Which to me looks pretentious.