Fonts

[koster]

Why are serif fonts easier to read on paper and sans serif fonts easier to read on screen?

[Playbill]

I do not agree that this is always so.

I find a serif typeface easier to read on screen or on paper.

However, for road signs (seen at a distance) a sans serif face seems best.

[wildwood]

Stolen from Wikipedia,

//Typefaces with serifs are often considered easier to read in long passages than those without. Studies on the matter are ambiguous, suggesting that most of this effect is due to the greater familiarity of serif typefaces. As a general rule, printed works such as newspapers and books almost always use serif typefaces, at least for the text body. Web sites do not have to specify a font and can simply respect the browser settings of the user. But of those web sites that do specify a font, most use modern sans serif fonts, because it is commonly believed that, in contrast to the case for printed material, sans serif fonts are easier than serif fonts to read on the low-resolution computer screen.//

[Segilla]

I find sans serif text can be misleading - bum or burn, for example.

Also, in some fonts (but not this one), and in new passwords and email addresses is that a 1 or a l?