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Nice! I would suggest a sans-serif font though, aren't they better for display reading? Hyphenation would be nice too.

The main historical reason for using sans-serif fonts on displays was the displays' lousy resolution. With modern display technology that reason has mostly disappeared.

At what point does the resolution become good enough for serif fonts I wonder? Unfortunately 1366 x 768 is still quite the norm (118 ppi on a 13.3" screen).

I find serif fonts to be perfectly readable even on 1280x800 displays.

On screens it tends to be the other way around - serifs for headlines and sans-serif for body text.

Although it'd be great to see some decent research into readability of different fonts.

I've had so many ideas for studies about the impact of fonts I wish I'd pursued. A psych professor of mine was interested in them and did at least one study that I know of[1], but information on speed and legibility would be fascinating.

[1]http://www.researchgate.net/publication/237229931_The_Influe...

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