The Best Fonts, According to Science

I now want my interstate signs in wingdings

Since I can remember I hate Times New Roman. Neutral about Comic Sans.

Fonts that squash sf into a single letter drive me crazy. Fonts where lower case L and the number one or zero and capital O are indistinguishable are (#)$(#&%(*_YT)+. I my experience, comic sans works very well with foreigners and older adults learning to read English.

Ill. Iliad, llama, llanero, llareta.

hello, sans serif! you okay?

I prefer san serif fonts. I use Arial or Calibri.

I feel like serif fonts like Times new roman are kinda ugly.

Is anyone disturbed that the researchers used a 1-7 rating scale?

Could it be that Courier is a more readable font because the people who typically have macular degeneration (old people), are used to seeing them more often than the sans serifs those darn whippersnappers always use?

It's irrationally irritating me that you keeo pronouncing "sans" two different eays 😂

Also your editor uses a Sans Serif font, which must make it the best. Arial ftw.

Yeah at least for me larger sizeing spacing + line reader are the most dyslexia friendly. Just for the love of god put the swirls and typed cursive down. But then again I use text to speak more anyway.

The old Tumblr classic, Times New Bastard, is always fun.

Finally courier love.

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This could be considered a font of wisdom.
Call the serif department.

I will die on the hill about Arial being the pure and most perfect digital font. ♥️⚰️

Fonts are important for readability for those with visual disabilities and certain cognitive disabilities

My favourite font is Ubuntu, and I just love the way it looks in bold italics. Easiest to read from my point of view, though that's purely personal, as is my hatred of Arial, which is due to personal history.

One of my favorite fonts is b612 mono. it was made to be easy to read at a glance for pilots. its a sans serif monospaced font.

I love SciShow but the lack of research / general knowledge on fonts here is glaring.

Reviewing only the fonts Microsoft offers you, is like doing a episode on nutrition and only covering the McDonald’s menu.

The is a much longer, richer, and more interesting history to be told on how and why fonts are designed the way they are.

I can't listen to "sans" pronounced that way, unless I'm listening to someone french.

Sorry. I'm sure you're video is lovely. It's me not you.

I think road signs should be in Papyrus. I'm finding driving to be boring and want to add an element of squint induced contact to my commute.

My favorite font is Arista 2.0 Alternate. You should check it out.

My friend Ilya has something to say about how much serifs matter. Also the MacIntyres. And while we're at it, Io.

Over half a century ago, graphic design was part of my Architectural training. We were taught that, for ease of reading, the spacing between individual letters was more important than the shape of the letters themselves. Ideally the distance between each letter should depend on the spaces being equal in area, not distance. I may be wrong but I am under the impression that this is not easily achieved with coded fonts.

I never change the font on my pc, but on my phone, it's "cool jazz". I'm on a samsung s21fe but there's probably something similar on other brands

As a karaoke creator, I have focused on this. People always mention the dichotomy of serif vs. sans-serif typefaces but forget there are semi-serif fonts like Adobe Gothic or FrizQuadrata as well. These are fonts with slight serifs to one degree or another and they tend to be the best of both worlds.

Arial is a garbage ripoff dollar tree Helvetica.

I'm dyslexic, and have optic nerve damage. One of the only fonts that I can read without any errors, is Calibri. I have no idea why. I might try Courier now :o

Comic Sans Bold is my favorite no matter how it is perceived by others.

There’s a lot of obscure terminology here, but then instead of just saying what a monospaced (fixed-width? whatever!) font is they had to dumb it down and give a really bad explanation of what makes Courier different? 🧐

If you find a Sans Serif font more readable than a Serif font, you do not struggle to distinguish i, L and 1 from each other. Welcome to three straight lines. It's a literal nightmare and why I refuse to write in anything but Times New Roman, or when unavailable, at least a Serif font. -.-

What about lexend?
I heard it was proven to be the most readable

Fonts are tools, it must be used according the circumstances. I love much of the fonts out there (not Comic Sans), they're "state of art", everyone has their own particular character (pun intended).
I prefer Caslon over Times New Roman, for books and novels. Helvetica, Futura, Roboto over Arial, for science reading, signs, labels. Courier for OS-terminal, CMD and programing.

Good to hear that the war on serifs in corporate reports has been all for nothing.

Watching this has been very insightful for me. Although I am not diagnosed with the dyslexia, I have always had difficulty with my letters, and I am an absolute terrible speller. One of my children is diagnosed with dyslexia, and the same traits as me.

I have always preferred Ariel or other sans serif fonts, and have found Times new Roman to be the worst font for reading. To the point where anytime I could switch the font in document I received I would. I find it so hard to read, even worse than other fonts with serifs…. And DON’T GET ME STARTED ON ITALICS!!!

I’m going to start trying out some of the fonts that have space between the letters and see what impact that has for me and my children.

I hate Times New Roman

My go-to font is Trebuchet.

It was the best of fonts, it was the worst of fonts, Comic Sans

I'd rather choose webdings than times new romans

Curlz MT is a great font to use on a resume.

One of these is capital i the other is lower case L: Il Got it? lf you're using a Mac OS computer they are virtually identical. In fact, I just deliberately misspelled the first word of the previous sentence. Mac OS does not let you choose your system font, so you're stuck with the Il mess. Serifs distinguish capital i from lower case L, so they're useful in that sense. You may question how often this is a problem. Maybe it's not, until it is. Meanwhile, it's one more thing to look out for. My computer did flag 'lf' as a spelling error. The computer know the difference between I and l, but we don't. That's a problem. So if Serif fonts are more accurate, they have my vote.

Fun fact: fonts with uniform character width are called monospace fonts and are commonly seen in terminals on computers due to working nicely with aligning text.

Courier is easier to read for the elderly due to their experience with receiving printed telegrams in their youth.

Pegasus, baby. Since '00

Consolas gang here!!

Blackadder 10 FTW

Who names the fonts?

Im a big fan of Trebuchet MS, i find it easier to read