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user · Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 476

whats the less eye tiring font?

SKAN · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 8688

See: An Excellent Font for Program/Text Editor

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SoggyDog · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 783 Location: Greeley, CO

Further, the best color combination for reducing eye strain is supposed to be yellow text on black background.
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polyethene · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5248 Location: UK

I heard that a red-blue shift is better for the eyes, which is how ClearType renders text.
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SoggyDog · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 783 Location: Greeley, CO

engunneer · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 8255 Location: Maywood, IL

of course, the easiest thing on the eyes is to turn off the computer!

Anyway, are you looking for a nice font, or a nice font style (color, bold, etc)?
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corrupt · Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 2485

If you're using a tube style monitor you could also try increasing your refresh rate or try switching to an LCD style monitor if you can.

PhiLho · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:32 am Post subject:

I am waiting eagerly the famous electronic ink / paper screen...
I believe there is a mobile phone already using it, but it is still black & white yet.
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daonlyfreez · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 949 Location: Berlin

Web page readability: Green text on yellow works the best

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SoggyDog · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 783 Location: Greeley, CO

pepoluan · Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

Since OP asked about fonts, here's some guidelines:

For Printed Material Body Text: It is best to use a serif font, as the serifs (little thingies at the ends of the letters) help guide the eye to the next letter, and it provides the necessary spacing for vertical line letters (e.g. lowercase-L, lowercase-I, etc.)

My Experience: Times (or Times New Roman) is quite good. Garamond looks ugly in Windows, but very pleasant when printed. Haven't got much experience with other fonts.

For Printed Material Heading: It is best to use a heavy sans-serif font; they tend to make the heading more 'announced'.

My Experience: I tend to use Arial Black for headings, or Arial Rounded. Swiss Demibold also looks good.

For Screen: It is best to use a square-ish sans-serif font; serif fonts makes the screen cluttered because of those 1-pixel serifs.

My Experience: Assuming that you are not talking about monospaced fonts (i.e. fonts for programming), Verdana and Trebuchet are quite good. Arial is also good, but I prefer Verdana or Trebuchet. For programming I either use Dina (a bitmapped font) or Consolas, but with the latter I make sure that I activate ClearType, even on CRT's, as Consolas looks really ugly without CT.
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drmurdoch · Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 110

Sure some colours are easier to read than others ... but this might age specific, your eyes change you know !

If you have alot of 60+ adults on your site, your optimal colours might be different.

drmurdoch · Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 110

Obviously font size is important.
Obviously screen size is important
LCD is easier to read than Tube Monitors.
No light(ie. Window) behind and around your monitor is important.
The correct height of the monitor is important.