The best web font

Whcih to choose?

[tonynoriega]

I am thinking of chaning the text font on my site to give it a fresheer, modern look....but not going overboard with something that just looks stupid.

right now i have:
td {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color:#000000
}

that continues to be the theme throughout the site with a few adjustments here and ther for my HEAD tags...

is there something nice and clean that i could use in repalce of this?

[DrDoc]

"nice and clean" ... and universally available?

[Robin_reala]

Other readily available sans-serif fonts you could try include Tahoma and Trebuchet MS. They're not universal, but worth a look. You could also investigate using a different font for headings compared to the body text.

[edited by: Robin_reala at 6:41 pm (utc) on Oct. 3, 2006]

[tonynoriega]

yes... i have seen some designers mention Trebuchet MS, and other mention Eras Demi ITC...

[Robin_reala]

Eras Demi ITC

It looks nice, but I can't find any record of it being preinstalled. You could go down the sIFR route and buy a copy for your headings. Trying to use sIFR for body text is not a route you want to go down though.

[Wlauzon]

Google "web safe fonts"

[tedster]

You could go down the sIFR route and buy a copy for your headings.

Just a note -- sIFR is free.

[Robin_reala]

Oops, that came out wrong. I meant buy a copy of Eras Demi ITC and use it with sIFR.

[limbo]

image replacement might help for headings - verdana for the rest.