There's a thing called contrast in a font's design. In higher contrast fonts the thin strokes are thinner and the serifs can be more pointy.
Here's an explanation for it:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-contrast-in-typography
Here's a study that concludes that lower contrast fonts are more legible:
https://jov.arvojournals.org/article...icleid=2771520
The last sentence summarizes:
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These results lend support for an account through which letter-stroke with low contrast, and not serifs, facilitates observers' lexical identification thresholds.
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I think this explains why I've always liked Comic Sans.
