What font do u use for text?

14 years ago

Verdana for me. Studies have shown that sans-serif fonts are easier to read online. Georgia is a serif font, which is not as easy to read unless you boost up the font size.

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R Hagel

14 years ago

I agree with Dennis -- Verdana works. Arial, Tahoma and similar fonts aren't bad either.

Just don't make it "Web 2.0" pretty with the teeny, tiny font. Unless eagles are your target market.

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Ricci Cox

14 years ago

Hi, I'm a Graphic Designer by day and in its well known that a sans-serif like Helvetica or Arial is much easier to read online. Offline, stick with a serif typeface for long sales letters, something like Times New Roman or similar...

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Sour

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Ricci Cox

Hi, I'm a Graphic Designer by day and in its well known that a sans-serif like Helvetica or Arial is much easier to read online. Offline, stick with a serif typeface for long sales letters, something like Times New Roman or similar...

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Ricci

Seconding Helvetica. It's definitely a gorgeous font that's loved by all designers.

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Emersion

14 years ago

Georgia for titles & headrs and Verdana for the actual text.

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learnfromthebest

14 years ago

alright, verdana it is. Thanks

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Stephen Dean

14 years ago

I used to test fonts quite a bit. I haven't in a while but 11pt Verdana was winning for me for the body text.

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RebeccaL

14 years ago

Verdana and Tahoma. I'm really leaning towards using Tahoma more these days, particularly for smaller text. Nice and easy to read.

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WriterNick

14 years ago

Verdana! It looks professional, =)

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zcx

14 years ago

Verdana is a useful all-purpose font - looks good and stays really readable at very small size, too.

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Sue McDonald 14 years ago

It seem the general one is Verdana. I was a Arial user before IM but have changed to Verdana. I like the results.
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NK

14 years ago

Generally I use Verdana and Arial. However, lately I've taken a liking to Calibri.

Problem with verdana is it looks weird when used above size 11, so sometimes I experiment with other fonts for headers like Tahoma.

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matrix1989

14 years ago

Originally Posted by NK

Generally I use Verdana and Arial. However, lately I've taken a liking to Calibri.

Problem with verdana is it looks weird when used above size 11, so sometimes I experiment with other fonts for headers like Tahoma.

Started using calibri months ago and haven't looked back

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soniia21

14 years ago

Verdana and Arial

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Adam Nolan 14 years ago

I'm partial to Gil-Sans ...
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PaulaC

14 years ago

I've always preferred Verdana. It just reads better.

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Kev Stevenson

14 years ago

I believe Verdana was specifically designed for screen...
If I remember right, the designer(s) compared it against others by walking away from the screen to see which was legible from furthest away.

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Social Experts

14 years ago

tahoma all day

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Steve Powers

14 years ago

Verdana?maybe it's the most common one I have used.I think it works.

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JAIDEEP2959 14 years ago

I use Arial font and I like it.
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acms

14 years ago

I have always been a fan of Arial as I have found that it is generally well accepted. However, quite a few of the above posts have mentioned Verdana so I am keen to give this a go.

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InternetM39482

14 years ago

Arial/Verdana. For designing, Helvetica and Myriad Pro. :-)

I like Georgia, too, though!

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grin 14 years ago

I think its interesting that this has become confused in the academic world. The essentials are that you have a serif when you want someone to be able to read the words easily and sans-serif when you just want the words to look good.

I have friends that go to certain schools that have flipped this around for some reason and even the school stands on "Fonts LOOK good with no serif ergo you should use that for writing."

So I stick with what is available as default font families for CSS such as Arial and Times.
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grin

14 years ago

Again I just bring up the academic part of it because you think they would know better.

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Shannon Herod

14 years ago

arial 12 point for body, and tahoma for headline and sub headline

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jasonmorgan

14 years ago

Stick with these and it's all good.

Arial
Arial Black
Century Gothic
Georgia
Impact
Tahoma
Trebuchet MS
Verdana

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

Verdana was designed for screen as well as Georgia: the serif for the net

Oh, and don't forget the "minor" detail: you can use the most fancy font on your website, just make sure the VISITOR has it on his computer... otherwise you just screwed yourself up: they will never see it

(^^ this above should be a reminder for Colibri-lovers: it came with M$ office 2007, earlier editions don't see it)

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jzmoore

14 years ago

Any popular Sans Serif font (a font without the little lines or balls at the end of each character) studies have shown that a Sans Serif font is easier to read. The other type of font is Serif (with little lines or balls at the end of each character)

Also a word of caution. If you are using a newly introduced font, your recipients system may "jumble" or not display the fonts at all if they are not equipped for it.

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Istvan Horvath 14 years ago

Originally Posted by jzmoore

studies have shown that a Sans Serif font is easier to read.

Yes, on the screen.

On paper it is easier to read serif. (also shown by studies )
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sterday

14 years ago

Oh, Many are using verdana here, I thought most people will use Times new roman, Yeah i do use that font.

But now am also thinking to use verdana, Lets see