a new 1000-page book by Yannis Haralambous, entitled Fonts & Encodings (from O’Reilly) has just appeared and it’s the first real tie-line to sanity in the jungle of glyphs.

2. Georgia 6 points This font number two on our list of best fonts for reading books is ideal for smartphone reading, so if you’re publishing an e-book, this is the way to go.

We wouldn’t want to see Helvetica everywhere; a nice serif really does ease the process of reading through a chunk of text. That said, few fonts can make a sign or logo as cleanly bold as Helvetica.