Something else I've been pondering about to do with websites...
What web font should you use? First of all, there is the decision of compatibility - you generally want to choose one that most people will have, although this generally isn't a problem since you can select more than one.
The main problem, as I see it, is that fonts such as Verdana are well suited to using on the web. This is generally because they have a high aspect ratio (x-height divided by font size), but what if the user doesn't have Verdana?
Let's say that we set the font size to 10pt, and use Verdana - most people can read this without a problem. However, if somebody doesn't have Verdana, it will default back to, say, Arial, which is a fair bit harder to read at 10pt.
What about if we set the font size to 12pt? We (virtually) guarantee that people can always read the text, but our nice Verdana font now looks too big.
What solution do you think is best? In CSS2, there is a nice attribute that creates a consistant x-height, which more or less sorts this problem out, but it hasn't been implemented yet in any (major) browser (so far as I'm aware).
So, what fonts and sizes do you generally use?
Mike.


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