Legibility And Reader-Friendly Font

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my favourite serifed fonts.

But soon I discovered that texts in Cyrillic script are easier to read than texts in Latin, regardless of the font settings. This becomes especially obvious when I read mixed texts on the same page. Most of the minuscules (lowercase letters) in Cyrillic follow the shape of the respective capitals, they vary in width and height less than in Latin, and each glyph’s shape is more distinct. Any text is composed mostly of the minuscules, therefore Cyrillic appears to be more legible.

<b>History</b>

Originally texts were written entirely in capital letters, spaced between well-defined upper and lower bounds. When written quickly with a pen, letters tended to turn into rounder and simpler forms. It is from these forms the lowercase letters developed. Thus, Latin script was optimized for writing at the expense

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