• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

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

    Serif bias aside, awesome.

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      2 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 😜

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          2 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)