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I see it everywhere I look. Verdana. The safest web safe font there is. Verdana here right now. Verdana on every other web page. Verdana is the safest for small text sizes, widely supported, sans-serif, looks good for body copy. Occasionally there's Georgia, Times, Arial, Trebuchet, maybe even Comic Sans. But Verdana doesn't suffer from their problems, and 9 times out of 10, it's back to Verdana. If there's a choice for body copy between all the web safe fonts, you might as well go with Verdana; it's your friend. Clean, well-designed, sharp.
I have Verdana reflux. I'm tired of looking at it. It's always Verdana. I see it in my sleep. I see Verdana even when I'm not looking at Verdana. My friend has become my enemy. There's no alternative. I can't embed fonts. I can't use SIFR for body copy. I can't use image-replacement. There's nothing I can do. Verdana has taken over the web. It's on every site. They all look the same to me. I just see Verdana text. What does Verdana mean anyway? I don't know. It doesn't matter, it's too late. Verdana has taken over this website too. Watch out! You are reading Verdana right now!
Someone please help me. Preferably Microsoft, Apple, or Linux. Get more fonts. Distribute them. Please, while you are at it, include some nice fonts with every download of your web browsers. Mozilla and Opera can get on it too. Give me some freedom here. Help!
hahaha… love this post.
Though I rarely if ever use Verdana, I too am tired of the safe "fonts".I particularly hate Arial.It is the deadest most uninspiring font around.
My favorite web safe easy read font is Sylfaen.It'spretty and looks great in nice large sizes….13px and above
Aw, Verdana is ol' faithful! It can be so versatile.. it can look cute and chunky or small and professional. It is trusty and cool
I personally use http://www.mts.net/~jbarnabe/stylish/ to manually correct sites with offensive fonts to Tahoma. For some reason I prefer it to Verdana.
As for free fonts, you could always try Bitstream Vera Sans, which is purposely designed to be Verdana's ugly six-toed sister.
I'm big on Trebuchet MS for sans-serifs, and Georgia for serifs.
That's just me, though.
I'll give you a nice font to use: Lucida Grande. Now there's a nice piece of typography. I'm using Windows, and yet I have it installed! Figure that one out! Actually I'll just give you the link to the Windows port of Lucida Grande, it's dandy. Trebuchet MS is also a nice one, John Oxton even uses it.
That Firefox Stylish extension is great, I found it on the Mozillazine forums a while back. It replaces the whole need for those unique CSS id identifiers in Firefox with that proprietary -moz-document @ rule.
ha ha I had the same feeling so when I was thinking about redesigning 3 months ago I stripped everything back to white and chucked in a page full of Courier New…
now I'm sick as hell of monospace but I can start looking sans-serif in the eye again lol