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Getting tired of screen font Verdana, blog designers tend to switch to typeface Tahoma which is essentially Verdana condensed horizontally. Verdana’s great readability at text sizes is partly due to the space within the characters, but this gives it a long line length. You can fit more text in the same space with Tahoma, which is helpful for dialog boxes.

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Verdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hinting done by Thomas Rickner, then at Monotype. Demand for such a typeface was recognized by Virginia Howlett of Microsoft's typography group. The name "Verdana" is based on a portmanteau of verdant (something green), and Ana (the name of Howlett's eldest daughter).[1]

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Verdana is much criticised, but with the proper precautions it can be used without jeopardising readability for those without it — the problem is not Verdana itself, but its careless use. In general, specifying only a single font — usually through the ancient font element but occasionally through CSS — may cause problems for visitors lacking that font, as their browsers will use their default fonts, which are usually traditional serif fonts such as Times.

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All web users benefit from clear, readable text on web pages. People with visual impairments are particularly helped.

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Fonts that look good in print don't always look good on a computer screen. Reading information from a screen is easier if you use a font that has been specially designed for on-screen reading. Two such fonts deserve special mention: Georgia and Verdana.

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Common wisdom developed over centuries is that serifs, the little horizontal lines at the tops and bottoms of characters, make text easier to read. That is why nearly all books, magazines, and newspapers use a serif font such as Times New Roman or Bookman. The fallacy, however, is the assumption that serif fonts are easier to read in any medium. In fact, the computer screen is a much different medium than the printed page. The resolution is much less, about 72 dots per inch (dpi) for the computer screen vs. 180 dpi or 300 dpi or even higher for printed matter.

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After avoiding the 7 deadly sins of résumé design, you may be asking, “If I can’t use crazy colors, clip art, and other types of decoration, how do I make my résumé stand out from the crowd?” Like many things, the answer lies in the details. Even if you can’t hire a fancy designer and are stuck with Microsoft Word, a few tweaks can turn your blasé résumé into an elegant and functional showpiece.

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Initially it is more difficult to create a good layout with a big font size, but that difficulty will help you design a simpler, clearer site. Cramming a site with information isn’t difficult, but making it simple and easy-to-use is. At first, you’ll be shocked how big the default text is. But after a day, you won’t want to see anything smaller than 100% font-size for the main text. It looks big at first, but once you use it you quickly realize why all browser makers chose this as the default text size.

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