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miriam_eAhhhhhhhhh 
That's better. I don't like sans serif fonts. I know many people like them, and yes they look clean and modern, but it is a bit like those Jetson-style chairs they used to have back in the 60s. They looked cool and modern, but they were terribly uncomfortable to actually sit on. There have been many studies that show that fonts with serifs are easier to read. The little hints at the ends of letters make it easier for our pattern recognition systems to pick up the shape of the letters. Thus they lessen the strain on the poor sod reading this stuff. I am all for art, but not art for art's sake if it just makes life harder.
That's better. I don't like sans serif fonts. I know many people like them, and yes they look clean and modern, but it is a bit like those Jetson-style chairs they used to have back in the 60s. They looked cool and modern, but they were terribly uncomfortable to actually sit on. There have been many studies that show that fonts with serifs are easier to read. The little hints at the ends of letters make it easier for our pattern recognition systems to pick up the shape of the letters. Thus they lessen the strain on the poor sod reading this stuff. I am all for art, but not art for art's sake if it just makes life harder.
Accordingly I replaced the sans serif fonts on my pages with good, old, reliable Times. Perhaps not the prettiest font, but the improvement in legibility is immediately apparent to me.