For many years, the stock advice on choosing fonts was to choose
sans-serif fonts for body text, and restrict serif fonts to large-size
headings. That advice became less set-in-stone when fonts that were
optimized for lower-resolution devices (such as Georgia) started
becoming available - although the majority of low-res-optimized fonts
seems to be sans-serif. Today, rendering engines in browsers, in
document processing software, in document readers, and so on all seem to
do a better job of rendering "print-optimized" fonts on screens, and
screen resolutions are becoming higher (for those who are willing to pay
the freight).
With regard to selecting fonts for the generalized text-oriented web
page, what advice would you give today? Serif? Sans? Display-optimized?
Add to the 'weight' with web fonts and @font-face, to get a more
consistent presentation, or make web fonts secondary in a font stack
that only looks to general characteristics, thus keeping the 'weight' of
the page down?
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