From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2005-03-15T08:47:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Redesign 2005 Blog

> I was convinced that the conventional wisdom was that sans-serif body 
> text fonts are more readable at the low DPI you get out of most 
> monitors, though actually now that I spent a whole 60 seconds Googling 
> I wasn't able to come up with anything substantive either way. 
> Personally, I just redesigned my site, using serif fonts as body text 
> ... this might be less legible to some people, but, you know, I use a 
> modern OS with decent anti-aliasing, so it all looks fine to me ;)

Yeah. Moreso, modern hinting (which even Windows 98 does well enough) is
quite adequate to getting things looking good with serifs.

> 
> > One also should not use underlined and non-underlined links. Given the 
> > link text/other text ratio one should stick to non-underlined links.
> 
> Consistency is important, but I'd argue the other way: You better have 
> your links underlined, otherwise you're going to leave your readers 
> madly scrubbing around the page hunting for links. Life's too short.

Underlines ++

Ari