> > I was convinced that the conventional wisdom was that sans-serif body
> > text fonts are more readable at the low DPI you get out of most
> > monitors, though actually now that I spent a whole 60 seconds Googling I
> > wasn't able to come up with anything substantive either way.
> 
> Sans-serif is the better choice for screen fonts:
> http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/text.htm
> 

very informative and useful link, thank you