Has anyone tried reading up on the science of fonts when deciding which one to use? I know some firms did studies of online fonts and a lot went behind design of digital fonts. Microsoft's fonts were designed by a famed designer for the purpose of looking good on the screen. Let me grab a ref:
http://www.will-harris.com/typoscrn.htm
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Chuck Bigelow, the co-designer of the Lucida family of typefaces (with Kris Holmes)--suggests several ways to choose type that is easiest to read on-screen. First, he suggests considering sans serif faces for body text. "When printed, the serifs on typefaces are only a tiny percentage of the typeface's design. But on-screen, in order to display the serifs using the limited number of available pixels, they take up a much bigger proportion of the information than they do on a printed page. Serifs should be small things--but on screen they become big--no longer visual cues but noise--distracting chunks of interference."
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Personally the font on that site does not special for me. It's readable but not better than average. But Verdana is always very easy & pleasing for me.