Mysterious Art of Fonts
Found an article on Digg: The Secret Lives of Fonts. It’s about a student finding out that if he uses Serif fonts in his papers, he gets higher marks. For san-serif fonts he gets lower marks. Even the standard of the papers are similar. [Examples of serif: Times, Georgia. Examples of san-serif: Arial, Helvetica.]
Important discovery for all of us students. So bad if you deserve an A but you get A- just because you use san-serif. Not the teachers do this on purpose, but serif is more readable. So we all have to learn this for typed documents. Georgia is the best to the person who wrote that article.
How about Chinese fonts? As a Chinese, I’ll investigate this.
(Classifications according only to me. Screen shots taken from Font Book.app.)
Examples of serif:
Examples of san-serif:
So you see them. You use serif most of the time, in fact. San-serif looks so heavy. It’s much less readable especially for teachers who have a lot of things to read. Use serif for printed documents. San-serif is only for titles. [Remember them for your Chi reading report!]
Finally, English san-serif can be used for on-screen viewing – use them for your website. I’ve got Verdana for this blog. Pretty good.
