Typography for the Web

[VL Branko]

I found these two sites and thought that some of you may also find them useful. If someone else has already posted them then please excuse the redundancy.

Butterick's Practical Typography

and

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

[Trevor.Dennis]

jane-e  wrote

I agree with Szalam. I prefer serif typefaces for reading large amounts of text in print and sans serif for reading on screen.

Jane, I have an excellent solution to font dilemmas when it comes to novels.  Audio books.   

[Ussnorway]

in a scottish accent lol

[jane-e]

Trevor.Dennis, audio books are the only things that get me through driving 50 miles each way on the days I teach classes!

[VL Branko]

Szlam said "Interestingly, I find the standard (sans-serif) typeface on these forums to be easier to read than the serif one that VL Branko is using."

I quoted several usability studies that found no discernable advantage to either serif or san serif when it came to ease of reading and legibility. You may be simply just used to seeing san serif because most of the sites that you frequent use them and that is what you expect on the web. Or it is just a matter of your taste and preference.

And for me, it is the opposite. I detest sans-serif fonts for body text and relegate them to titles and headings, in fact for those jobs I prefer flared fonts. It is a matter of taste not usability. And, in a text on March 16 I listed a number of major sites that use serif fonts. It is clear that the digital world is not a sans-serif world.

I very rarely read paper books now and digitized my whole library to PDFs.