When I design a website or more in general a graphic composition there are two things which bother me: the color palette and the font-family.
After some trials I find a color palette which satisfy me pretty simply but when I have to choose the font...
The winner is...
In general my choice is always limited to "Arial" or "Verdana" but sincerly I am used to using Arial font-family with size 12px or 13px for text body and 18px with font-weight set to strong for text header. If you like how this font looks on sites like delicious, digg, flickr, "Arial" is your perfect font :)
Verdana
I like how "Verdana" looks... but only for to size smaller then 12px. I think the perfect size for this font is 11px with a line-height set to 16px-18px. I don't suggest it for the text body: it's small and can result difficult to read with this size for some users.
You can see a good use of Verdana font on A List Apart and the result is very elegant.Lucida
Recently, how you can also see on this blog, I am addicted form this combination of fonts: "Lucida" with size 12px for text body...
font-family:"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
font-size:12px;
... and "Georgia" with a big size (32px, 36px...) for text header:
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
And you, which font-family do you prefer? :))
I am Antonio Lupetti, Engineer, Pro Blogger, Mac user, Web addicted.
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i use Tahoma. It's not so good, as its creation story, but it may be best web font for cyrillic texts.
I like Trebuchet MS.
Comic Sans :)
Seriously I`m faithful to Verdana, but Lucida is also good choice.
I love the combination of Verdana and sometimes Arial with Georgia. I think Georgia is great to set blockquotes or big header to the foreground. Verdana and Arial, maybe also Tahoma are made for content ;)
I like to use Trebuchet MS and Lucida.
I love Lucida. :)
I like to use Georgia, though my favourite font right now is Gill Sans.
I prefer Trebuchet MS, sans serif font to glide over the headers, and Georgia for the text body, with serifs to catch visitor's eye.
and how do these fonts look like in Linux...?