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Why you should use sans serif fonts for figures, posters, and slides.

September 25, 2009   Filed under Blog, Posters, Presentations  

Serifs are those little vertical lines and flourishes at the ends of letters (like the vertical lines at the ends of the capital S or the horizontal line at the bottom of the lower-case r). Use sans serif fonts (Helvetica, Arial) because the near-uniform width of the strokes keeps the font readable when reduced in […]