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Buck wrote: the argument for sans serif fonts is indefensible.
Well, here's a defense:
My company publishes some of its smaller manuals as booklets; i.e., pages are set up in Word at full size and then we use a print utility to literally "shrink" them to half-size. It didn't take us long to find out that serif fonts looked terrible and were virtually unreadable when reduced. We got much better--and more readable--results using a sans serif font (good ol' Arial).
Someone else--I think it was Pat Gantt--said that she had understood that research showed sans serif fonts to be more readable. I've read that too, somewhere. She wasn't making it up.
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