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Colin Wheildon/legibility/Ole Lund/reading/sans serif/serif/typography

Fighting bad typography research

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Alex Poole

When you hear claims which are radically different from the established body of research, you should rightly be sceptical - here we go two rounds with some rogu...

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