preferred font size- style?

[Jesse Hand]

Anyone have any suggestions on a font size and style? What do you personally
like when you surf the web?

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-Jesse

http://www.pixelpages.net/jesse

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[Jon Spivey]

Hi,
for my own sites I usually use

14px/1.5em "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Trebuchet's a nice web font 14px is a reasonable size(I wouldnt go any
smaller) and I like a bit of line height. Georgia and Verdana can also look
good - depending on the look you want. If you're doing a kids site you might
use Comic Sans - although it probably wouldn't look good on an adult site. I
use Courier New for heads sometimes - again depending on the look I want.

Make sure you specify PC and mac variants and a "worst case" serif or
sans-serif so everyone will see your site as close as possible to how you
intend.

Jon
Microsoft MVP - FP

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

Anyone have any suggestions on a font size and style?
What do you personally like when you surf the web?

-Jesse

http://www.pixelpages.net/jesse

Everyone has their own opinion but personally, I like
body {font-family: sans-serif; }
or
body {font-family: sans-serif; font-size:80%; }

In print, serif fonts are easier to read, especially at
small sizes. Unfortunately, the 72 dpi monitors most Web
visitors use are incapable of displaying serif fonts very
clearly. This makes generic sans-serif fonts a better
choice.

It's usually not worthwhile to agonize over typefaces
because at 72 dpi most of them look the same anyway.

The reason for using generic fonts is that the visitor's
browser can only display fonts installed on the visitor's
computer. And you have no way of knowing what those are.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
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|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
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