quite interesting and brand new topic! thanks.

Wow. Very cool clip.

Wonder why Times New Roman ranks higher than Georgia? Georgia is easier to read and more attractive.

I like book antigua and bookman old style

Wonder why Times New Roman ranks higher than Georgia? Georgia is easier to read and more attractive.

A serif font (TNR) is easier to read than a sans serif font (Georgia) when there is a large amount of text. Usually, headlines use sans serif and books use a serif font.

Haraya is in publishing. Maybe she knows more.

Hey, look how smart I am. Upon second glance, it appears that Georgia is also a serif font. sigh.

Yeah, to me, Georgia is a fresher, easier-on-the-eyes variation of TNR. I also am a devotee of Trebuchet for sans serif fonts.

I'm a plain-text email kind of guy. A pox on Microsoft for forwarding the notion that every email is a web-page waiting to be born, and that every individual who has access to email understands font choice. The message is the message.

Readability has a lot to do with perception of the message, i.e. if it's hard to read - it's unlikely to be carefully read and considered and due to such lack the mood dampens etc. Of course it's very medium-dependent. Times might be what most books use, but in e-mail it looks terrible... Verdana is a much better choice, as was dictated in Microsoft bible for developers (at least it was a few years ago when I did a project for them). I don't think it's the font so much as the ease with which something can be read. That would also explain the latest trend on web sites to have LARGE size fonts.. it's simply easier to read and that's what most people want.

Amen to that RS and to BartendingBear as well. I send every email plaintext if possible, but my employer has a fairly poxy MS exchange webmail system set up that makes it difficult at times.

That's why G*d invented Gmail, enbar