Think readability, think sans-serif

When designing a website there are a lot of things that must be taken into consideration, an important one being readability. Sure serif fonts can look beautiful, and the flowing marks at the points of each letter allow your eye to flow nicely from one letter to the next, but this only works in high resolution (i.e. print). At low-resolution (i.e. screen) the detailed serifs become more complex and the whitespace tighter, making the readability a lot slower and difficult. 


Solution, a beautiful thing called, sans-serifs. These modern and simple fonts are more legible in low-resolution situations do to their simplicity. The most readable sans-serif fonts are broad and have a generous amount of space between letters, allowing easy recognition of words. A lot of designers find Verdana, to be the most effective font for body copy in web design because of its broad spacing and readability. 


So next time you go to choose that font for your blog post or website; think readability, think sans-serif.