The easiest to read is black text on a white background. Style - Simple font types are easier to read than ornate letters. Try comparing the following fonts for ease of viewing. Each example is a point size of 19. View them from as far from the screen as you can - note which maintain their visiblility.
Italic fonts tend to be more compressed and have charateristics that slow the reader.
Inconsistency with text leads to visual clutter and a random, disorderly appearance. Blinking text - Only very rarely is blinking text truely effective. Since it is so easily mis-used, we recommend avoiding blinking text. Columns - Text is easier to read in narrower columns. If you have a large body of text, try to break it up so that the readers doesn't have to scan the entire width of the screen for large blocks of text.