{"id":622,"date":"2006-02-25T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2006-02-25T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T16:31:00","slug":"622","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Font change<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/\">Web-design gurus<\/a> say that sans-serif fonts are more readable on the screen than serif fonts (the opposite applies on paper), I am trying a switch to (depending on your system) Verdana, Arial, or generic sans-serif.<\/p>\n<p>Archived pages are in the old font. 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