...anything particular against them-but prefer good serif typeface screen as well as on paper. More to the point, I don't see why I can't use my preference, whatever that preference is.

I believe I can sum up all you need to know about Web typography for content-heavy pages-typography where the words matter-in one simple sentence:

"It is better not to set a font size or type at all-but instead leave this decision to the user." That's from "Understanding Web typography-an introduction," an article by Jim Byrne at the Making Connections Unit of Glasgow Caledonian University (www.mcu.org.uk). Although not perfect, it's a good contemporary consideration of typography on Web sites. In itself, it provides a middling-to-bad example of Web typography because it appears in an oversize sans serif face. Fortunately, the user can change that size, and a "print version" does use whatever typeface and size the user prefers.

DO YOUR WORDS MATTER?

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