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?
Arial, Verdana, Trebuched, Lucida. Which is your favorite font for the web?
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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!
Arial, Times, Georgia. I like these
Georgia forever. :)
I prefer using “Arial” and “Gerogia”. “Georgia” to display heading title of post and “Arial” to display article contents.
Verdana #1
I definitely prefer Helvetica and Arial. I don’t like Trebuchet.
Same as “Kardeno”, Georgia for title/headings & Arial for body text.
I love Georgia, one of the more typographic fonts that can be used.
I vote for Verdana
The one that fits to the overall feeling of the design.
Hi, I use every font depending on the seriousness of the project, but prefer, Georgia and Lucida.
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.
I use Tahoma for text and Georgia for headings
Verdana rocks!
Georgia for headings! :)
My favourite is Georgia but I also like Lucida Grande (or Lucida Sans Unicode for windows users)
Antonio! Pls take note! The font name is Trebuchet, and not Trebuched! Btw, I love Verdana!
Helvetica, lucida & arial my favs… sometime i use tahoma
Veranda for the body text and Helvetica for the titles
Helvetica is the best!
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.
Helvetica, of course! I also like to use Arial, Verdana, Georgia, and occasionally Trebuchet for headings.
Helvetica <3 But Lucida Grande is also nice.
Tahoma the best, NOPE (no hope) for others!!!
Arial, Verdana, Georgia, times.
Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial and Georgia.
I use Georgia or Garamond as the Headings.
And Verdana or Lucida for the text.
I use Helvetica and Georgia normally
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.
I love Trebuchet and Georgia.
font-family: “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, “Calibri”, “Trebuchet MS”, verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
I like Arial, Tahoma, Segoe UI and Lucida Grande.
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.
Arial, Trebuched
Georgia, Lucida Sans, Trebuchet MS
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.
@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/
Georgia for titles, Verdana for body text.
Verdana, Trebuched are my favourite :)
Trebuchet MS is the best font to Web Content.
Thumbs Up… Same choice here… :)
My favourite fonts are Verdana and Trebuchet
Trebuchet for big text & arial for small one. if Segoe UI are rendered, i think its number one :D
I follow the footsteps of Twitter and so…as much as “Georgia”!
Trebuchet MS for the body text and well… myriad pro or Georgia for the headings… But hey.. Trebuchet goes along quiet well too…
Io girerei la domanda, tu cosa preferisci?
A parte questo sito che usa un gradevolissimo arial!