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pixelpusher -> RE: Love your games.... but... (3/14/2009 9:58:15 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Das123
I'm a designer by profession and the serif vs sans-serif legibility argument is marginally true of 'printed' rendition of type, but not of projected or pixelated rendering. Essentially serif fonts are only clear in a screen environment if they are anti-aliased, otherwise sans serif is much much safer to render and much more legible. Besides, the original research done on type legibility was from decades ago
I just wanted to agree with this... Both sans-serif and serif fonts can be readable in different situation: Sans serif are generally accepted as being better for on screen (ie computer), whereas serif fonts are generally more readable in print, such as your newspaper, or books.
The main problem is anti-aliasing: In many computer apps, (including CoG:EE) the fonts aren't anti-aliased. Unless you're actually smoothing out all the little pointy serifs (such as you do in print), they just make the text more visually distracting. Also, the font, Times New Roman (TNR) that we use in game has a little bit greater difference between caps and lower case letters. Thus, the main body text is a couple pixels smaller than, say, Tahoma.
That said, serif vs sans serif is just one of those Coke v. Pepsi issues... some people feel really strongly one way or the other. So the best thing is to allow people to switch, should they want to.
BTW: There is a great movie out called 'Helvetica' which talks about helvetica.
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