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Ask HN: Serif or san serif font on a classic website?
2 points by shotinthedark on Jan 19, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
I am working on a website tiered to the older generation with a 'newspaper' feel to it. I am currently using a serif font but I keep on thinking I should change it to sans-serif because it's cleaner and easier to read. NYTimes uses Times New Roman, so does The Times (UK) and few others. What do you think? Serif or san serif?


Times New Roman is very condensed, so IMHO it's hard to read on a monitor. Try something wider, like Cambria (Windows-only) or even Georgia.


I personally think Georgia is a good font for websites.


It's a line of CSS difference. Do a user test.




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