thanks for the words/advice/personal experience. I may give comic font a try. i noticed the anti-aliasing thing and vaguely remember advice about that from somewhere else, but can't remember: does anti-aliasing make it smudgier and turning it off makes it sharper...or vice the versa? e.mkeene wrote: ... > > You many also want to experiment a bit with the anti aliasing option in > the sys prefs under"general" at the bottom of the page. This setting > controls how much "smudging" the system does to remove the jaggies from > text. Depending on your visual acuity, you may be more or less sensitive > to the blurriness this can cause. Test it by changing the size both up > and down and working a few minutes after each change until you find your > comfort zone. >