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From: kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Why is Courier ugly?
Message-ID: <1558@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 22 Mar 91 15:44:44 GMT
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geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen) writes:

>As a matter of fact, I have recently been reading a book set in a
>sans-serif typeface.  The book itself is good, but it's very annoyong
>and hard to read.  I want to grab the publisher by the throat as I'm
>reading!  It strains the eyes to read it.  You don't realize how nice
>serifs are in helping to understand what you're reading until you have
>to do without them. 

Geoff, you have no idea how difficult it is for those of us with vision
problems -- all that serif type in itsy-bitsy point sizes that just is
one big grey blurr.

Some people, like myself, actually like san-serif typefaces because
they allow me to tell the difference between letters better.  some of
us also like bigger point sizes.

I guess I should put a caveat in all this:  I usually print in
avant-garde 14 and 18 point on a LW+ just to be able to see it.  I
can't stand times-roman:  for me it is completely unreadable.  I have
foudn that I need a large x-height and a heavy stroke to be able to
read things.

BTW, does anyone have any suggestions for a good MS-WINDOWs 3.0 font
that has a large x-height and a heavy stroke that I could install???

Kevin
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