Whats your text?

Size? Font?

[adamnichols45]

I prefer to use Arial size 11px although I should use 12px I dont like how big it is lol.

share your views.

[milanmk]

Font : Arial, Sans-Serif

Heading : Medium
Content : Normal
Footer : X-Small

I generally use relative font sizes so users can easily customize it, except for site navigation. I have also used Tahoma for some sites.

Milan

[rocknbil]

Specifiying fixed font sizes is generally a Bad Idea. I try to design with *no* base font size specification, test it at various text size enlargement/reduction, and specify my larger and smaller fonts in percentage.

.medium { font-size: 85%; }
.small { font-size: 75%; }
.large { font-size: 120%; }

In specific cases where I feel forced to fix the size (there are very few) I still use pixels because usually it's because I want it to match up with Some Stupid Graphic I created. :-)

.small-fixed { font-size: 10px; }

[wolfadeus]

Verdana 11, wider than arial, which I prefer for the navigation.

[simonuk]

Haven't use fixed width sizes for quite a while. This is mainly because a lot of browsers ignore what you want and they do exactly what the user wants.

H1 {font-size:large;}
H2 {font-size:medium;}
p {font-size:small;}

That's how I do mine.

Simon.

[pageoneresults]

arial, sans-serif;
verdana, sans-serif;
tahoma, sans-serif;

Nothing less than 13px for body copy. Will use 11px/12px for navigation links.

Trying to break away from the fixed environments is tough although I'm slowly making the transition.

For Web 2.0, nothing less than 14px for body copy, it all depends on the base font style chosen. With arial, you need to add, With verdana, you can subtract, With Tahoma you need to add. With a Serif font face, you'll need to add. It is all relative to the base font family.

[piatkow]

Like Rocknbill I don't fix the font size.

[kneoteric_V]

I prefer Arial over others, since it looks least complicated (it is my sole opinion).

As on font size, I typically follow H1, H2 and H3...

[Beagle]

On my two larger sites:

On the one that's pretty straightforward, mostly displaying download products, I use Arial - for the same reason as k-v, as well as it probably being the font people are most used to reading. Exception on that site is an area with downloads for "fancy" greeting cards, stationery, etc., where I use TNR italic for the main page text but still Arial for the nuts and bolts.

On the one that's a content site about a specific topic but with lots of sections, I usually use Arial for for article text, but vary header font depending on the subject matter - comic sans for humorous articles, TNR for book reviews, etc. Since the various article types end up in different sections, I try to balance an all-over look for the site with giving each section a bit of its own character. Each section is in its own subdirectory, which makes this easier to set up for the headers without a lot of excess formatting.

Size varies.

--Edited because I typed "Ariel" instead of "Arial" throughout - Yeah, so I read Shakespeare sometimes, okay? :)

[edited by: Beagle at 1:55 pm (utc) on Feb. 22, 2007]

[limbo]

Image replacement and sIFR for headings, nav, focus box etc - I like to have as much control on typography as I can get.

Body copy is usually set in Georgia or Verdana, in ems.

[Beagle]

Following on Limbo's post, I do use images for the main nav buttons on the content site - with proper alt tags, of course ;) - because the font used ties in with the site's logo.