Serif fonts

Wow.  I’m still surprised at the ubiquity of san-serif fonts.  I wrote about this a while back.  I remember when san-serif fonts seemed really cool.  That was back in the time of VGA-resolution monitors.  Yes, at that time, sans-serif fonts like Arial looked nice on displays.

Such fonts also look good for special purposes: for example to make a neat-looking resume.

But sans-serif fonts are no good for speed-reading and people who scan documents quickly. Sans-serif fonts are crap. I wish people would stop using them. I’m sick of trying to scan long texts and the stupid font making it more difficult.

I don’t understand how people don’t notice this. Do they actually read very much? I mean, just look at a page with sans-serif fonts and a lot of text. Look at the blocks of text from a meta-level. Don’t read the actual words, but look at the visual structure of the text – the clustering and spacing between markings.

Texts in san-serif fonts look like utter shit. Compare them to texts in serif fonts which look much more elegant, much more proportional between markings and spacings.

Its one thing when personal website developers do this. But its wholly inexcusable when professional publications do. And the majority of them actually do.

To me it indicates that any publication that displays such gross lack of attention to such a fundamental aspect of publishing is significantly lacking and probably not worth reading.