[LINK] Environmental impact of web versus print

Antony Barry tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au
Wed Sep 27 11:29:32 AEST 2006


On 27/09/2006, at 8:19 AM, Ivan Trundle wrote:

> Old research. You'll note that contemporary studies on this subject  
> are split on this point. YOUNG readers prefer sans-serif, old  
> readers prefer serif. It depends upon your frame of reference, and  
> what you are used to seeing most of the time.

And _very_ old Germans might still prefer Fraktur http:// 
www.morscher.com/3r/fonts/fraktur.htm

which I struggled with in the 1950s when I tried to learn German.

Tony

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