fonts - "Serifs improve fast, easy readability for long text" - myth or truth? - Graphic Design Stack Exchange

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Familiarity, fondness, resolution (and optimizing for it)

Fonts such as Georgia and Droid Serif are notable in that they are specifically designed to be quite well readable even at fairly low resolutions on a screen. But if you consider a serif typeface that works excellently in print, like Caslon or Garamond, these are an atrocious mess at low resolutions on-screen. Whereas in print, I would claim Adobe Caslon to be one of the most readable fonts out there. Probably harking back to point 1 - because it's so familiar to us.