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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Comment about this source: Pits Times Roman against Georgia and Georgia against Verdana. Letter differentiation and rate of comprehension in reading. I quite like Georgia online. If you like serifs, then try Georgia which has some nice generous letter forms. Coghill, V.

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Banner Ads Suck (and How to Make Them Convert Better)

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Morris showed the quiz passage in six different typefaces – Baskerville, Computer Modern, Comic Sans, Georgia, Trebuchet, and Helvetica. As I mentioned earlier, part of the banner blindness problem is that readers completely fail to see the ads, let alone differentiate them from the content. And sure enough it did.