Choosing the Right Fonts

Filed in: Web Development — July 2nd, 2004

Is your website using the right fonts for your site visitors?

- People tend not to prefer Times/Times New Roman for aesthetics OR legibility. (Funny that this is the default font used for most word processing programs and web browsers!)
- Arial, Verdana, and Georgia are good. (Tahoma is also quite legible, but may not be on everyone’s system.)

- Older people may think Arial is easier to read.
- Kids like “fun” fonts.

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wits0
Courier fonts from those mechanical typewriter days are sleep inducers. Times New Roman resmbles
a little of that but not that much.

lucia
anthony, it was not lcf who stated that times new romans is not
liked. that was a quoted text from lcf taken from the sitepoint.com site.
didn't you notice, whenever there is a quoted text from lcf, you
will notice a grey bar by the side on the left?

anyway, i don't quite like times new romans... just because it is
too common. i like tahoma.

wits0
The choice of Arial is not bad ; I always find that better than Times New Roman and other serif fonts.
Personally I choose Verdana whever possible because I find it even more readable.:smile:

Edrei
How come you didn't write anything about embedding fonts on the web. I've done it, it's not that hard, you can see it on my blog. But I didn't use it for my main blog because I can't find fonts that is nice and readable.