What font does your site use?

[BadSense]

What font do you use on your site? Verdana? Arial? Times New Roman? Tahoma? Something else?

I'd like to hear why you use your font, if it's for any other reason besides "I like how it looks."

So what's the meaning behind your font of choice? :-)

[txbakers]

mostly verdana - i think it's the cleanest to read.

[pleeker]

We use Verdana on our company site, and I also use it on my personal site. Same reason as txbaker.

For client sites, we go between Verdana and Arial for sans-serif, and lately I've been doing a fair amount with Georgia when using a serif font.

[kiwibrit]

font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Easy to read on screen looks clean. I prefer to specify a font family, rather than just one font. But as Arial is widely available, and specified first, I guess that's what's mostly seen.

[jcmoon]

I'd agree. I've read countless authorities say that for readability, the best onscreen fonts are the sans-serifed ones (Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, etc) and the best print fonts are the serifed ones (Times ... ).

[Span]

Verdana, yes, for readability. And I always use a serif font (Courier New, Courier, Times New Roman, Times) for form elements like inputs and textareas. The typewriter idea..

[monkeythumpa]

[psychology.wichita.edu...]

Recap if you don't want to read the whole article:

Times New Roman is easier to read but people prefer to read Verdana. So if you want people to understand your site use Times (Tahoma is even better). But if you want people to like your site, use Verdana.

PS. Comic sans came as the third preference . . . It seems there is no accounting for taste.

[stapel]

I have a math site. I use Arial for the regular text, but Times New Roman for the math stuff like numerals and variables.

Eliz.

[Small Website Guy]

I've become a fan of Trebuchet recently, especially for blogs.

Verdana is the safe corporate choice for regular text. I like Arial for menus over Verdana because Verdana is too wide and takes up too much space in the menus.

[lammert]

Same as SWG. Verdana for the main content of the sites, but Arial for the menu's because it is less wide. The difference between content and menu fonts is also a natural way to separate the main content from other texts on the pages.

[jetboy]

Verdana mainly. Tahoma where Verdana's width is a problem.

[pageoneresults]

Verdana, Arial, Tahoma

...in that order.

I prefer Verdana for main body copy. I use Arial and Tahoma for heading elements.

Arial Bold reads better at smaller fixed sizes as does Tahoma. Verdana gets a little wide when working in tight spaces so I'll switch to Arial or Tahoma in those instances. Typically this occurs in navigation menus and headings.

I also like Trebuchet MS.

My defaults...

*{font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;}
*{font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}
*{font-family: "trebuchet ms", helvetica, sans-serif;}

[kaled]

Verdana for text and Arial for headings. Also, I don't like the way italics appear in Verdana so italic text is displayed using Times New Roman { font-size:115% }.

Kaled.