Re: Font Selection Methodology

["Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

The determining factor in the process you are talking about is the relationship among x-height, ascender height, and descender height, not the presense of absence of serifs.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "CB Casper" <knowone -at- surfy -dot- net>

>
>I recall seeing, on some website I neglected to bookmark,
>a discussion of how people read. It discussed our ability
>to 'read', or determine a word by the shape of the upper
>half of the word, when in lowercase, or initial uppercase.
>
>In an extension of this, we apparently read in chunks, 
>not discrete words, unless the wording is not familiar, 
>thus more time is needed to read unfamiliar text.
>
>I would like to see research on the difference of this
>ability using serif or sans-serif fonts. Anyone know
>where more information can be found?



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