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[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

All this talk of archaic to Roman and no talk of how serifs are being done dirty.

Serif bias aside, awesome.

[-] beefbot 1 points 6 months ago

Serifs are by products of the technology used to write them (stone, ink, etc) & are merely the on and off ramps to get to the real meat of it, & they are zero more.

Might even go so far to say they’re a waste of pixels and therefore energy. Fight me 😜

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Serifs enhance readability.

*mic drop*

[-] beefbot 1 points 6 months ago

I doubt that*. Serifs just add pixels to the labor of recognition. Serif fonts can’t reduce as small as the sans serifs, making them bad for things like iPhones 🤷‍♂️

*maybe I’d believe a decent study if you’ve got a decent source (stat sig N, clear funding source, etc)

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