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 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinting">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinting</a>) and sufficient x-height (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height</a>).<br>
<br>You may find some insight in the recent debate regarding <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a> redesign font choice, <a href="http://drupal.org/node/91293">http://drupal.org/node/91293</a> (designer Mark Boulton's take: <a href="http://drupal.org/node/912936#comment-3581724">http://drupal.org/node/912936#comment-3581724</a> and resolution: <a href="http://drupal.org/node/912936#comment-3611396">http://drupal.org/node/912936#comment-3611396</a>).<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Neil Coghlan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neil@esl-lounge.com">neil@esl-lounge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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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!<br>
<br>
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:<br>
<br>
<font face="Courier New">font-family:Tahoma, "Trebuchet MS",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;</font><br>
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but I've changed it so many times, I'm not sure of anything anymore
:o)<br>
<br>
Neil<br>
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