The next area to consider in relation to page styles is typography. Once again analysing all five of the groups' five chosen sites has highlighted a vast difference in writing styles in relation to the amount of text on each page, the form in which it is written i.e. journalistic, academic, note or caption form. One area where a website differs greatly from a book, let us say, is in the justification of its sentences. Most novels are presented in a justified style much the same as this paragraph with the text being aligned on both the left and right margins. It has been said that this form of alignment is more difficult to read as the humane eye prefers the irregularity of left aligned text as it is easier to follow on from one line to the other.
Another factor to consider is that of the font type being used. There are serif and san-serif fonts, a font like Times New Roman has serifs, short lines at the end of a letters stroke and then there is fonts like the one used in this document which is Ariel which has no serifs and are known as san-serif (without serif) fonts.
Due to the resolution for which a font is displayed on a computer monitor it has been agreed that a san-serif font is much clearer and easy to read. The printed page can use as high as 1200 Dots Per Inch (dpi) to resolve text whereas the print we see on our monitor is in the order of 85dpi, this makes the serifs more difficult to see and they can become blurred. Other causes of blurring can be if the text is imported as part of a graphic from a package such as Photoshop and the anti-alias tool has been used. Anti-aliasing the edges on a text or graphic images makes the edges appear smooth, not jagged, the problem arises on the computer monitor the anti-aliased images can now look fuzzy due to the resolution of each character of text.