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obermd21-Jan-23 6:39
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NewsNew font mandate creates frenzy at State department Pin
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trønderen20-Jan-23 14:41
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obermd wrote:
As with all Serif fonts, TNR simply doesn't scale to smaller screens.
Or let us say, serif fonts don't scale to poor resolutions, whether on screen or poor resolution dot matrix printers.

Screens/printers of today have the resolution to handle serif fonts 'reasonably' well. Screens of 20 years ago did not. That was a good reason for favoring sans serif. I guess that is part of the reason why serif fonts went out of fashion. I came to prefer sans serif myself.

Arial fills out the kegel (is 'cone' the English typography term?) more than Calibri. Even though they are both called '11pt', the Calibri letter shapes are smaller, providing more air between the lines. I always found it hard to follow the lines in a packed page of 11 pt Arial set on 11pt line spacing, so in everything I wrote, I set line spacing to 1.2, or if you like, 11/13pt. With Calibri, I have changed my default to 1.1 line spacing, or 11/12pt. The smaller character size also goes sideways, so more text is packed to the line. I don't think taht reduces readability. I think that Calibri 11/12pt is easier to read than Arial 11/13pt.

(Edit typo in par.2: Serif fonts went out out fashion, not sans serif!)

modified 20-Jan-23 22:08pm.

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