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
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.org redesign 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@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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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@gmail.comwrote:
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@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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