Comments on: Design Patterns 2 - web fonts http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/02/design-patterns/ Running commentary about agile development, user experience design and Ajax. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:08:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: John Vizzuto http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/02/design-patterns/#comment-2608 John Vizzuto Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:59:22 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/02/design-patterns/#comment-2608 If you are saying that Microsoft has done a great deed by eliminating Times New Roman, then perhaps you have not tried to print a PDF document and gotten the alien glyphics that try to replace Times New Roman. Maybe we have forgotten that Times New Roman was preferred by the London Times because it was immanently readable even in copies of copied copies of text. If you are saying that Microsoft has done a great deed by eliminating Times New Roman, then perhaps you have not tried to print a PDF document and gotten the alien glyphics that try to replace Times New Roman. Maybe we have forgotten that Times New Roman was preferred by the London Times because it was immanently readable even in copies of copied copies of text.

]]> By: Scot Witt http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/02/design-patterns/#comment-780 Scot Witt Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:18:42 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/02/design-patterns/#comment-780 <p>Hi Michael,</p> <p>One thing to remember- folks like me with a 2 to 3 diopter difference in our eye glass prescriptions who also use bifocals don't much care for skinny sticked fonts with serifs. This was one reason Arial/Helvetica was so great and why Verdana is so easy on our eyes.</p> <p>Please don;t forget us!</p> Hi Michael,

One thing to remember- folks like me with a 2 to 3 diopter difference in our eye glass prescriptions who also use bifocals don’t much care for skinny sticked fonts with serifs. This was one reason Arial/Helvetica was so great and why Verdana is so easy on our eyes.

Please don;t forget us!

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