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Highly Readable Fonts? I notice Joel is using Georgia for his blog, which is a great font - highly readable, but with a bit of life to it, unlike most boring, drab serif fonts (Times New Roman, I'm talking about you).
www.ChristopherHawkins.com
my discussion board at madebymonkeys uses Tahoma for everything. We've used it for the past 5 years so perhaps we're just accustomed to it :)
muppet from madebymonkeys.net
Tahoma is my personal choise too. Its very clear. Was never a times new Roaman Fan I never liked "Pointy haired Bosses"
Kuminda Chandimith
First off, "thank you" to whomever ix-nayed that all-caps post.
www.ChristopherHawkins.com
<experienced web developer>
muppet from madebymonkeys.net
I don't necessarily have web sites in mind, but...why not?
www.ChristopherHawkins.com
traditionally because they're almost always more difficult to read and make a block of text look... hairy? cluttered?
muppet from madebymonkeys.net
I like Monaco and Georgia. both have good readability and appealing.
mrc
Verdana.
MrFancypants
Joel's selection of Georgia looks quite nice on OS X, on my iBook.
Jon H
Joel wrote about using Georgia and Verdana ages ago. I seem to recall that they had been optimised for on-screen viewing.
Steve Jones (UK)
> I use Courier New, but I wonder if there is any better option.
bynarr
"traditionally because they're almost always more difficult to read and make a block of text look... hairy? cluttered?"
Mr Jack
Andale Mono for coding
el
I notice many are referring to either Mac only or Windows only fonts.
frustrated
Mr Jack
muppet is now from madebymonkeys.net
Bitstream's Vera Sans Mono is brilliant for coding
Cyrille Chépélov
Bill Tomlinson
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