For a long time I was against seriffed fonts. Verdana and Tahoma ruled the web and Times signified someone who didn’t know about the <font> tag. Recently I’ve admitted to never really giving seriffed fonts a fair chance. All of that has changed. For the past two weeks I’ve been running with “Palatino 14pt” in the following apps:

• MarsEdit
• Mail
• Adium
• VoodooPad

I recommend Palatino, Didot and maybe a little Baskerville if you’re up for it.

I spent about two hours staring at fonts in FontExplorer X and as prevously mentioned, am pretty happy with Palatino 14pt. It’s got a nice height to all characters making it easy to read and just the right amount of serif.

I also recommend deleting Comic Sans off your computer.

Resources:
Wikipedia’s serif page

Artisans would carve out a bit of extra space at the end of the long strokes of letters to prevent gravel and dust from collecting in the corners of the letters

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

Update: I should have mentioned, the NetNewsWire stylesheet, Hardcover, turned me on to the potential that seriffed fonts held.

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