What exactly is the difference between a text and a display typeface?

  • Mike Zender ,
  • Chuck Bigelow ,
  • Mary Dyson ,
  • Maria dos Santos Lonsdale ,

Visible Language | , Vol 51(1): pp. 134-142

What exactly is a display typeface?

What is it about a display typeface that makes it unsuitable for reading a lot of text?

These questions were stimulated by the paper in this issue, “Legibility Implications of Expressive Display Typefaces” by Sofie Beier, Katrine Sand, and Randi Starrfelt (see preceding article).