[support] The Dreaded Font Question

[Neil Coghlan]

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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