Arial, Verdana, Trebuched, Lucida. Which is your favorite font for the web?

Arial, Verdana, Trebuched, Georgia, Lucida are a part of some popular and frequently used typefaces for webpages. In the past years web designers had a their disposition only a restricted set of fonts for web sites. With the introduction of CSS 3 @font-face property things are changing and we can start using any font we want. But in the meantime, which is your favorite font for the web among “old” typefaces? Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, Georgia, Lucida, Times, Trebuched?

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    Teddy
    October 31, 2009 at 10:27 am

    I usually use Trebuchet for headings but recently I fell in love with using purely Georgia after seeing Extreme Georgia typographical layout being featured on Smashing Magazine.

    I think one of the very good examples of the usage of Arial/Helvetica will be Abduzeedo. Gotta love the huge arial headings!

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    CeoXi
    October 31, 2009 at 10:27 am

    Arial, Times, Georgia. I like these

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    Simone D'Amico
    October 31, 2009 at 10:30 am

    Georgia forever. :)

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    Kardeno
    October 31, 2009 at 10:32 am

    I prefer using “Arial” and “Gerogia”. “Georgia” to display heading title of post and “Arial” to display article contents.

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    Ricahrd
    October 31, 2009 at 10:32 am

    Verdana #1

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    axooh
    October 31, 2009 at 10:39 am

    I definitely prefer Helvetica and Arial. I don’t like Trebuchet.

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    deb
    October 31, 2009 at 10:56 am

    Same as “Kardeno”, Georgia for title/headings & Arial for body text.

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    Daniel Apt
    October 31, 2009 at 10:59 am

    I love Georgia, one of the more typographic fonts that can be used.

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    Azizuan Aziz
    October 31, 2009 at 11:05 am

    I vote for Verdana

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    Tuomas Tolppi
    October 31, 2009 at 11:06 am

    The one that fits to the overall feeling of the design.

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    Oscar Martell
    October 31, 2009 at 11:10 am

    Hi, I use every font depending on the seriousness of the project, but prefer, Georgia and Lucida.

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    webbografico
    October 31, 2009 at 11:13 am

    I like Helvetica for the paragraphs (but depends on the site overall feeling). I normally use non websafe fonts (at the moment I enjoy using Cufon.js very much!) for the heading.

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    sunpietro
    October 31, 2009 at 11:20 am

    I use Tahoma for text and Georgia for headings

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    AB
    October 31, 2009 at 11:21 am

    Verdana rocks!
    Georgia for headings! :)

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    Daniele
    October 31, 2009 at 11:23 am

    My favourite is Georgia but I also like Lucida Grande (or Lucida Sans Unicode for windows users)

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    Sathis Raj
    October 31, 2009 at 11:26 am

    Antonio! Pls take note! The font name is Trebuchet, and not Trebuched! Btw, I love Verdana!

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    jacobo villegas
    October 31, 2009 at 11:30 am

    Helvetica, lucida & arial my favs… sometime i use tahoma

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    Andy Walpole
    October 31, 2009 at 11:37 am

    Veranda for the body text and Helvetica for the titles

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    bkozal
    October 31, 2009 at 11:56 am

    Helvetica is the best!

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    Corinne
    October 31, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    I recently discovered the wonderful Lucia Sans italic, so it has become my number one choice recently. When I started doing web design, Verdana was always my choice for content. I use Georgia a lot because it works well for headings AND content.

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    redwall_hp
    October 31, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    Helvetica, of course! I also like to use Arial, Verdana, Georgia, and occasionally Trebuchet for headings.

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    Waldemar Axdorph
    October 31, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Helvetica <3 But Lucida Grande is also nice.

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    Andrea Tavazzani
    October 31, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    Tahoma the best, NOPE (no hope) for others!!!

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    Abhisek
    October 31, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    Arial, Verdana, Georgia, times.

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    wavuti
    October 31, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial and Georgia.

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    Swapnil Sarwe
    October 31, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    I use Georgia or Garamond as the Headings.
    And Verdana or Lucida for the text.

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    twe4ked
    October 31, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    I use Helvetica and Georgia normally

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    Mahbub
    November 1, 2009 at 12:52 am

    Arial for 11px, 13px and more than 16px;
    Verdana for only 11px
    Tahoma for 11px
    Times for 22px and italic
    Georgia for 19px and more.

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    Giovanni
    November 1, 2009 at 12:53 am

    I love Trebuchet and Georgia.

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    Michael Kaiser
    November 1, 2009 at 4:12 am

    font-family: “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, “Calibri”, “Trebuchet MS”, verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;

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    Ashutosh Mishra
    November 1, 2009 at 10:46 am

    I like Arial, Tahoma, Segoe UI and Lucida Grande.

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    Felipe Martyn
    November 1, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    I really like Verdana, I feel is a very clear and shaped font for small sizes, which I consider it’s best features. I don’t see the reason to use Arial, if you have Helvetica.

    Considering the serif fonts, Georgia is one of my favorites. Although I have used Palatino Linotype quite a lot.

    I recently felt in love with Existence Light and Miso, sans serifs and very well created.

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    Suresh
    November 2, 2009 at 5:11 am

    Arial, Trebuched

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    AldoV
    November 2, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    Georgia, Lucida Sans, Trebuchet MS

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    Magazine Builder
    November 2, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Helvetica doesn’t render too well on PC’s (at least when its font weight is bold). I like tahoma – it’s in between arial and verdana as far as weight/space goes and you can easily distinguish lowercase l’s from uppercase i’s.

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    boiss
    November 2, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    @font-face is great, but it only works on IE6+, Safari 4+, Firefox 3.5+ and Opera (i think 9+) what do you people use on older firefox, older safari and on chrome as a fall back technique ? On my side, I setup a SIFR, see it live @ http://www.demontigny.acolyte.ws/

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    Netnode.net
    November 6, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Georgia for titles, Verdana for body text.

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    Joro
    November 7, 2009 at 7:22 am

    Verdana, Trebuched are my favourite :)

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    Benny Ang
    November 10, 2009 at 12:01 am

    Trebuchet MS is the best font to Web Content.

    • Avinash Murali
      March 14, 2010 at 11:50 pm

      Thumbs Up… Same choice here… :)

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    milta
    November 11, 2009 at 12:55 am

    My favourite fonts are Verdana and Trebuchet

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    hugo
    November 11, 2009 at 11:36 pm

    Trebuchet for big text & arial for small one. if Segoe UI are rendered, i think its number one :D

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    DemoGeek
    December 1, 2009 at 12:04 am

    I follow the footsteps of Twitter and so…as much as “Georgia”!

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    Avinash Murali
    March 14, 2010 at 11:49 pm

    Trebuchet MS for the body text and well… myriad pro or Georgia for the headings… But hey.. Trebuchet goes along quiet well too…

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    Matt89fe
    July 17, 2010 at 7:22 am

    Io girerei la domanda, tu cosa preferisci?

    A parte questo sito che usa un gradevolissimo arial!

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    Crafter
    April 12, 2011 at 7:39 am

    Arial and Trebuchet ‘cuse are more like Helvetica… =P