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](http://www.fontexplorer.com/ iTunes for fonts) 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](http://bancomicsans.com/) off your computer. Resources:
[Wikipedia's serif page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif)

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](http://webtypography.net/)

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

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