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The reason sans-serif fonts tend to look better on a computer screen than serif fonts is refresh rate on CRT monitors. on my palm screen, there is no flicker at all in the refresh, and therefore I prefer the advantages of reading in a serif font (Serif fonts read a bit faster and cleaner in long passages, especially novels).
I have gotten very good display results with the following method (my preferred font: Times New Roman)
Encode TNR in iSiloX at the default sizes, but include TNR bold and TNR italic, also at the default sizes. Upload to palm. In iSilo set Default, Serif AND Sans-Serif font to TNR, and set size to "Smaller" and "Relative" (thus getting the 10pt. size)
The result is a very nicely rendered, 1 pixel heavy font which is pleasureable to read for extended periods of time, and gets quite a lot of text on the screen. I have better eyes than most, and some may find my preferred size to be a little small, but I like it.
Maceo: I have tried WordSmith on my TT2, and I think the sub-pixel rendering on the fonts there looks quite nice. There is a tiny bit of color distortion on some letters in some fonts, especially at smaller sizes, but for the most part they're quite smooth. The improvement to italic letters is truly shocking though. It's like night and day.
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