A test of relative readability between serif and sans-serif fonts.

There are no styles designated for this page (except the noted font families), BTW, so you can see it with whatever background you want by changing your browser default. IIRC, most default to white. These top paragraphs are left in the default font as well.

In case this doesn't work how it's supposed to, both of the following quotes are left at the default size, but the first should be serif and the second sans serif. For the sans serif, putting geneva before arial is as suggested in "Improving Appearance of Arial Font on the Macintosh" (was at http://home.earthlink.net/~bobbau/platforms/MacArialFonts/, now gone).

Us being who we are, I've borrowed from The Collected Works of Shakespeare for this: Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1, Gloucester speaks...

times new roman, times, serif geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.		 Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

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