The Secret Lives of Fonts
Posted by Nimit January 10th, 2008
For those of you writing papers in school (or elsewhere)…read this:
http://fadtastic.net/2006/03/12/the-secret-lives-of-fonts/
Short Summary:
The writer analyzed the papers he had written throughout college. Turns out the papers that he had written in a “serif” font (such as Times New Roman or Georgia) got much higher grades than the ones he had written in sans-serif fonts (such as Trebuchet MS or Arial). The data is pretty decent as he had written over 15 papers in each of his tested fonts.
The reason behind the result may be that “serif” fonts give your paper the appearance of being more professional/academic and thus result in a higher grade on average!
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3 Comments Add your own
1. Mahendra | January 13th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Nice point Nim, and this highlights the essence of fine details for lot of things in Life as little things can add up and can get you the edge.
That is it all about.
Thanks.
Mahendra
2. Ami | January 13th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I’m writing a paper right now… I’ll be sure to use “ser if” font for it. Interesting study Nim
3. Nimit | January 14th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Ami I didn’t literally mean the “Serif” font. Serif and sans serif are classes of fonts in general. Fonts that have little sticks at the end of them (like times new roman or georgia) are SERIF fonts. Arial, Verdana etc are Sans Serif (without serif)
I’d say go for Georgia
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