I wish fonts made the difference between uppercase i and lowercase L as clear as possible. I don’t understand why most computer fonts don’t put lines above and below the uppercase i like I think everyone is taught in school to do.
Those lines are called serifs, and that’s where the term “sans serif” for different typefaces comes from (“sans” is French for “without.”) That Wikipedia page mentions claims that sans serif is more legible online, but I have not looked into the sources and don’t know enough about webpage design to make any claims about that myself.
Serifs were always considered beneficial to reading fast or for conveying info. This is debated now I think because of course it is. Sans fonts mostly stayed in the headline and ad copy toolbox until shitty screens were shitty at displaying serifs. So they took off and leaked a little beyond their true stature among font styles.
Serifs are better in the same general sense that OpenDyslexia is better as a font for both sufferers and some others. Your brain can do its thing, reading at any speed needs some of that back door stuff like serifs to stop you reading that letter (like Al and AI) and and tossing all that buffer to wonder what the fucking word is.
Just my stoned opinion as a former graphics guy from the print days until Adobe went real extra stupid.
If adding serifs to the I is bad, I think a good alternative is adding a tail to the l (like a t without the bar). Some fonts do this and I’m a huge fan.
The first name “Al” has been ruined, my first thought was “they’re making AI gore?”.
I wish fonts made the difference between uppercase i and lowercase L as clear as possible. I don’t understand why most computer fonts don’t put lines above and below the uppercase i like I think everyone is taught in school to do.
Those lines are called serifs, and that’s where the term “sans serif” for different typefaces comes from (“sans” is French for “without.”) That Wikipedia page mentions claims that sans serif is more legible online, but I have not looked into the sources and don’t know enough about webpage design to make any claims about that myself.
Serifs were always considered beneficial to reading fast or for conveying info. This is debated now I think because of course it is. Sans fonts mostly stayed in the headline and ad copy toolbox until shitty screens were shitty at displaying serifs. So they took off and leaked a little beyond their true stature among font styles.
Serifs are better in the same general sense that OpenDyslexia is better as a font for both sufferers and some others. Your brain can do its thing, reading at any speed needs some of that back door stuff like serifs to stop you reading that letter (like Al and AI) and and tossing all that buffer to wonder what the fucking word is.
Just my stoned opinion as a former graphics guy from the print days until Adobe went real extra stupid.
If adding serifs to the I is bad, I think a good alternative is adding a tail to the l (like a t without the bar). Some fonts do this and I’m a huge fan.