Comment 4 for bug 677134

Serifs are used to fill-out the characters in a monospace font (the designer does not have the flexibility to alter the bounding box width like in a proportionally-spaced font).

The attached PDF shows four serifs styles, tagged a, b, c, d, e. An earlier test I believe compared a and e styles, confirming that _some_ sort of serif was necessary.

A meeting on Thursday 2010-12-02 suggested that our direction should be towards those those give a slightly lighter feel to the font.

Mark: since the various descriptions we were using verbally, could you confirm in letter form your thoughts on b, c, d and which would we should focus on for possibly doing a comparison test on in the future. (The glyph /shapes/ themselves here are not important, I have only mocked them up for ease of reference).