The other adjectives employed in these distinctions between Gill's type and those of the Germans are revealing: the geometric sans
serifs are "unfeeling," "cold," "irrational," and "dehumanized."
The take-home message of the present paper is straightforward: In a normal reading setting (at least in single-sentence reading with participants with normal vision), the presence of
serifs does not impact on reading fluency.
It should horizontally extend to the right of the stem similarly to the
serif in
serif designs and enough to be visible at small size but not too long to cause spacing problems for sans
serif designs.
Sans
serif type-faces usually require more line spacing than
serif typefaces.
For ages, they have been willing to throw down over the merits of
serif versus sans-serif typefaces.
The results from research on the effects of the presence or absence of
serifs on the legibility of print seem to be inconclusive.
First, use sans
serif fonts like Arial, Verdana, and Lucinda Grande for signs, PowerPoint headings, titles, outlines, and so on.
In itself, it provides a middling-to-bad example of Web typography because it appears in an oversize sans
serif face.
Forget the fancy script styles and stick to an easy to read typeface without
serifs. (
Serifs are the little lines at the tops and bottoms of letters in some type styles.
* distinguish between traditional old style, transitional and modern
serifs.
Both typefaces could be used in smaller type sizes; Times New Roman because of its design and (shape of)
serifs, and Arial because of its design and higher x-height.