[support] The Dreaded Font Question

[Carl Wiedemann]

Sorry, I pasted the first link missing a digit from the node id. Here's the
correct one http://drupal.org/node/912936. Cheers.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Carl Wiedemann <carl.wiedemann at gmail.com>wrote:

> As indicated by your motivation to change the font in the first place, this
> issue is largely a matter of taste. Generally speaking, it's good to choose
> a font with good hinting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinting) and
> sufficient x-height (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height).
>
> You may find some insight in the recent debate regarding drupal.orgredesign font choice,
> http://drupal.org/node/91293 (designer Mark Boulton's take:
> http://drupal.org/node/912936#comment-3581724 and resolution:
> http://drupal.org/node/912936#comment-3611396).
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Neil Coghlan <neil at esl-lounge.com> wrote:
>
>>  Which font would you recommend for a content heavy, text heavy site? I
>> know that's like asking "which car is best?" without listing any of the
>> thousand criteria required to give a proper answer.
>>
>> I used Verdana on my dev site until someone said it looked "deadly dull".
>> I noticed even the BBC has now dumped Verdana and gone with Arial.
>>
>> I know the question of web-safe fonts is very important and that for a
>> screen environment like a website, it's probably best to go with a
>> sans-serif font...but which one?? A good deal of my content will be of the
>> type, blog posts, forum posts, image/vid descriptions....50-500 words, no
>> lines too long, good line-heights used to make everything readable.
>>
>> I thought I was on solid ground with verdana but in retrospect, I think my
>> friend was right. It's a bit of a dull one, our buddy Verdana!
>>
>> So...which one do you use? What does your overriding font-family
>> declaration look like in your theme's CSS? For now, I've gone with:
>>
>> font-family:Tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
>>
>> but I've changed it so many times, I'm not sure of anything anymore :o)
>>
>> Neil
>>
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