What is your preferred viewing font on web pages?

Question

e.g..

the ones I use:

Arial
Times New Roman (originally, being replaced)

Occasionally:

Bookman Old Style
Garamond
Lucida Sans
Arial Narrow

Answer 1

Arial everytime. New Time Roman looks awful

Answer 2

Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma

Arial Narrow

Answer 3

The best are Sans-Serif fonts for viewing text:
Tahoma
Verdana
Sans-Serif

But Serif fonts are quite useful for titles or for texts that need to stand out:
Georgia
Garamond

Avoid Times New Roman in this category, as it has an un-professional look about it - probably because it has been the default browser font for over a decade.

Answer 4

I've used arial. My problem is not the font but the size. I don't go to a lot of sites I'm sent to because the print is too small for viewing.

Answer 5

Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma
- For everyday text. Clear and readable.

Courier
- For code. Fixed width is very important for this purpose.

Times New Roman
- If I want my site to look like a 1995 Geocities reject.

Comic Sans
- Just because it's got "comic" in the name, doesn't make it cute. It sucks. It's ugly. Please people, stop.

Rawlyn.

Answer 6

Verdana, Arial

Answer 7

If you're creating a webpage, it's preferred to not set the fonts but let the browser's settings control the font and only to control the size and emphasis of the font in the code.

Answer 8

Verdana is used mostly and then arial but the fonts need to be re-sizable and not fixed so fonts size should be specified in ems and not in pixels.

Answer 9

Arial. Particularly Arial Bold. I tend to find people who are trying to be fun use Comic Sans S and, you know, that's ok too.

Answer 10

Verdana or Arial