Schoolbook was designed for maximum legibility, and is still used in elementary school texts. Research by Boyarski, Neuwirth, Forlizzi, and Regli (1998) examining Times, Georgia, and Verdana fonts on computer screens has found that Georgia was significantly perceived to be easier to read, sharper, and more legible than Times.Īnother commonly used serif font is Schoolbook. However to make Georgia more legible for computer-screen viewing, its uppercase characters were lightened and the letters’ x-height (the height of the torso for lowercase letters, such as an ‘x’) was increased. Georgia is somewhat similar in appearance to Times. Georgia, on the other hand, was designed specifically for computer-display. Fonts designed for print, such as Times, were created for both legibility and economy of print space.
The fonts that were examined are listed below in Table 1.Ĭurrently, text that is viewed on computer screens consist of an amalgamation of both serif and sans serif fonts that were designed specifically for computer use, as well as those that were originally intended for print (serif fonts cross-strokes that project from the main stroke of a letter, whereas sans serif fonts do not).
To do this, we examined some of the most commonly used fonts for differences in reading effectiveness, reading time, perceptions of font legibility, font attractiveness, and general preference. We are now able to compare these fonts at the 10-, 12-, and 14-point sizes. In the last edition of Usability News we discussed our findings in regard to the performance and preference of twelve different fonts at the 12-point size.
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