Comment by maxk42
8 years ago
Stop making sans serif fonts for code!
Code has to be readable. Those serifs aren't merely decoration: They're visual cues that help your eye intuitively determine which letter is intended by a given shape.
Sans fonts may look "clean" but they actually take your eye longer to read.
"So before you go around claiming that serif typefaces are easier to read than sans-serif typefaces, you might want to do a little checking around. The embarrassing truth is, there's no solid research to back up that claim."
Source with references: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-serif-readability...
One of many studies that show it's actually additional spacing that's at work when small text readability is improved with serifs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612630/