hm, is it really specifically low quality paper? i'd read that times new roman/serif fonts are more legible in print generally, whereas sans serif fonts are (obviously) much more legible on a screen
(relatedly, back when i had optic neuritis in 2018 and everything was monstrously blurry i started aggressively setting all of my work documents to arial despite the fact that times new roman is our standard formatting for letters and so forth [which, since everything is submitted to USCIS in print, fair enough perhaps] and now one of the attorneys i work with and i are engaged in a perpetual silent war of swapping the font back and forth on whatever we're working on. *g* i just don't want to have to squint at serifs on a computer screen, dave!)
also thinking about how the default font on kindle paperwhite (which is super hi res) is bookerly, which is a serif font but definitely feels easier to read on that type of screen—but it’s also an E Ink screen, so it’s closer to being like paper (which would maybe support the “better on paper in general” theory??)
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(relatedly, back when i had optic neuritis in 2018 and everything was monstrously blurry i started aggressively setting all of my work documents to arial despite the fact that times new roman is our standard formatting for letters and so forth [which, since everything is submitted to USCIS in print, fair enough perhaps] and now one of the attorneys i work with and i are engaged in a perpetual silent war of swapping the font back and forth on whatever we're working on. *g* i just don't want to have to squint at serifs on a computer screen, dave!)
also thinking about how the default font on kindle paperwhite (which is super hi res) is bookerly, which is a serif font but definitely feels easier to read on that type of screen—but it’s also an E Ink screen, so it’s closer to being like paper (which would maybe support the “better on paper in general” theory??)