Saturday, January 16, 2010

Serifs and Typography

Any mind-machine interface has 3 attributes: Learnability, Efficiency, and Memorability. An optimal system can be learned easily, used quickly, and is easy to remember or re-learn. Writing is a mind-machine interface. This paper focuses on efficiency. There are two warring factions of fonts, Serif and Sans serif. To determine the most readable of the two requires understanding of the reading process.