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Legibility and Reader-Friendly Font
Feb. 22nd, 2009 09:17 pmTHE PROBLEM
As a computer programmer, I have to spend a lot of time reading technical documentation. Most of it comes from the Internet, so I read it from my computer screen. I used to adjust the text size and read comfortably most of the time. Unfortunately, the most comfortable text size is different for different groups of letters ("ftlji" vs. "vkxsz"), so now and then I stumble across phrases like:
"Illiterate jinn illicitly tilts lifts, fills filters and flitters in Fiji!"
Not only does it slow down my reading pace, but also makes it uncomfortable to read the text. First I attributed this problem to the fact, that the majority of web pages employ sans-serif fonts, considered to be more legible on computer screens. So, whenever I come across a large text, I would copy it to the Notepad and then read using one of my favourite serifed fonts.
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As a computer programmer, I have to spend a lot of time reading technical documentation. Most of it comes from the Internet, so I read it from my computer screen. I used to adjust the text size and read comfortably most of the time. Unfortunately, the most comfortable text size is different for different groups of letters ("ftlji" vs. "vkxsz"), so now and then I stumble across phrases like:
"Illiterate jinn illicitly tilts lifts, fills filters and flitters in Fiji!"
Not only does it slow down my reading pace, but also makes it uncomfortable to read the text. First I attributed this problem to the fact, that the majority of web pages employ sans-serif fonts, considered to be more legible on computer screens. So, whenever I come across a large text, I would copy it to the Notepad and then read using one of my favourite serifed fonts.
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