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jere on Aug 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The effect of typefaces on credibility

Good points. Verdana is one of my favorites, but I believe it suffers from the same issues because it was also designed for being legible on screen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdana#Usage

kadavy on Aug 9, 2012 [–]

Yeah, Verdana is fantastic on screen (this was especially so before anti-aliasing was standard), but looks awful in print.

EDIT: also, didn't know about IKEA's Verdanagate (from your link above). Fascinating!

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