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Again, don't assume anything about the people who use your site. I would encourage any designer to at least check a site's pages with anti-aliasing switched off. The discovery you make may come as a shock, and in the worst case, you may even be moved to rethink your typographic choices.
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I fall firmly in to the camp that believes that sans-serif faces are a more suitable option
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Verdana is our first choice font here. This font was designed for the screen and is the most common sans-serif typeface used on the Web today.
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Trebuchet is another face created for the screen. Designed in 1996 by Vincent Connare, it is probably the most distinctive of the common Web fonts, and can convey a great deal of energy and personality. Certain features of this typeface depart significantly from what we would expect from a classic grotesk font, for example, the uppercase M seen below.
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large x-height, helping to increase legibility at smaller sizes.
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Despite its compact width, Helvetica reads well on screen due to its large x-height
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- Low contrast and simple strokes with a consistent weight and thickness
- Generous x-height
- Generous width and letter spacing
- Generous punch width (space within letters)
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Felipe LavínIf one aspect of design has suffered most in its transition to the Web, it is the art of typography. For years, Web typography involved little more than choosing a typeface and font size. Unstyled Times New Roman was the norm, and the integration of estab
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Masha du Toitlearn about using fonts on line - what to avoid, what works. Includes information on ant-aliasing vs aliased fonts.
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Susan NugentThe Anatomy of Web Fonts article By Andy Hume, posted on Sitepoint.com on December 9th 2005
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font-family: verdana, "trebuchet MS", helvetica, sans-serif;
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Jungmi ParkTypography involves degrees of science and art. In this step-by-step guide, Andy illuminates the science of practical typographic theory and explains how it applies to the selection of attractive, usable Web fonts. He shows how to assess the merits of ...
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Patrick Trotter(tags: webdev webdesign web tutorial tools tips reference html graphics fonts design css color)
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Jason MarottiIf one aspect of design has suffered most in its transition to the Web, it is the art of typography. For years, Web typography involved little more than choosing a typeface and font size. Unstyled Times New Roman was the norm.
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