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From: doug@eris (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Scaling Outline Fonts
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Date: 16 Apr 88 04:20:34 GMT
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In article <3062@whutt.UUCP> mls@whutt.UUCP (SIEMON) writes:
>  I'm not disputing
>that serifed faces are easier to read (they ARE for me), but the only tests
>of this that I know of go back to the 30s and 40s (some were by Cyril Burt,

Yes, there have been much more recent studies...I read something recent
on this within the last year, but I can't place the reference! (Arghh...)
Anyway, I did touch on the reason why they are in my recent posting about
smoothing fonts.  Perhaps it was too long for anyone to bother reading?
I'll have to practice being trs (terse).

	Doug Merritt		doug@mica.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!mica!doug)
			or	ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug