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dtrenz · 21-08-2007, 09:27

helvetica, tahoma, verdana, trebuchet, and (arial)

OutThisLife · 21-08-2007, 19:38

Verdana and Trebuchet MS, sometimes Arial, are the fonts I usually use. For good reasons.

Limbo · 22-08-2007, 04:10

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Originally Posted by dtrenz

helvetica

Should be avoided. Helvetica looks like shit when rendered as un-aliased text on a Windows 2000/XP box (default setting)

BostonBaaB · 15-11-2007, 02:22

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iblastoff · 15-11-2007, 03:37

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Originally Posted by Limbo

Should be avoided. Helvetica looks like shit when rendered as un-aliased text on a Windows 2000/XP box (default setting)

ehh. i highly doubt most people running windows would even have helvetica unless they were designers, in which case cleartype would probably be on.

samuelcotterall · 15-11-2007, 09:25

I'm a big fan of Verdana for body copy, usually.

emil · 15-11-2007, 09:31

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Originally Posted by iblastoff

ehh. i highly doubt most people running windows would even have helvetica unless they were designers, in which case cleartype would probably be on.

it still looks awful (almost unreadable), even with cleartype on.

Transmogrify · 15-11-2007, 09:46

Some useful information about web safe fonts for windows. this could probably apply to Mac these days too

Code Style: Windows font survey results

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