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Re: Looks ok
by Jim Dabell on Monday 03/Mar/2003, @02:38

"The new KDE site is using way too large of fonts."

It uses the font-size configured in your browser. If you don't like it, configure your browser the way you want.

"Although I agree that sans serif looks better, if it was meant to be the font used on the internet, then why when not specifying a font does it default to serif?"

Probably because that's a decision made for mosaic, and every mainstream browser since then has put far too much effort into retaining the default look of existing browsers.

There are legitimate reasons for choosing serif over sans-serif and vice-versa, that don't have anything to do with style. Where they can be rendered appropriately, serif fonts are quicker to read. However, at low resolutions or small sizes, serifs cannot be rendered well, and sans-serif is quicker to read.

(Can't seem to choose HTML as an encoding option at the moment, sorry for the formatting).

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