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Posted By: slacks

I won't clog up this thread with a typeface discussion, but look at the novels on your bookshelf. I bet 95+% of them are serif fonts. All major newspapers use serif for body text, and many even use it for headlines. Times/Times New Roman is still the most popular word processing font. Of course, very small text (8 pt. and below) tends to be more readable with sans serif.

I have read many, many studies on font and type readability, and there is not a clear consensus. It's a topic of heated discussion among typographers!

Pete, if you have credible information that says otherwise, it would be big new in the world of typography! I'd like to see it - e-mail me a link. I'm sure Bill doesn't want this to carry on in a thread about the web site.