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Originally Posted by hobnail
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.
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Bingo! Early computer displays/printers were 7/9 pin dot-matrix. The company I worked for had some Daisy Wheel printers for formal letters, but everyday printing was dot matrix (personal printers) or Band printers on the big Iron.
Until dot matrix evolved to high pin counts, doing serif was not pretty
