[IxDA Discuss] Arial vs Vernada?

[Julie Palmer]

We just addressed the same question at my company. During my research, I did find a report online that indicated that Verdana was preferred significantly over Arial (it's so much more open), but the trade-off in spacing are tremendous. Unfortunately, I can't find it to send you the link.)

Tahoma is a nice compromise, and unless the majority of your end users are Windows NT users, you should be okay on Windows. Of course, your CSS would always need to have some options (for instance: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif), but Tahoma (and Trebuchet for that matter) ships with most Windows versions up through Vista. Here's a good article that compares them: http://www.webaim.org/techniques/fonts/#screenfonts

Now, Vista opens up a whole new can of worms with the new (and quite lovely) "C" fonts. I get the impression they will be shipped "instead of" and not "in addition to" the familiar core fonts. This article is worth a read: http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Downloading_and_Using_Vista_Web_Fonts.

Julie

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Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Arial vs Vernada?

For a better reading experience: *Arial or Verdana?*

- If Arial is smaller than Verdana, why do we use arial for the majority of
web apps?
- If there any studies or facts about that?

Comments?

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