Its been quite an interesting discussion, and I'm really learning some good stuff here. But I haven't heard at all about "Trebuchet MS" here. I usually use "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif as the base family for most of the sites that I make. I feel it goes really well with Windows and Linux machines.
What do you think about those? On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:59 AM, davor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > How do you tell if the font is too tall and what is the impact of > > choosing such a font? Does it cause the line-height to increase to > > accommodate the font or does it just fill in the whitespace and cause > > the text to look jumbled? > > In short, Verdana (and Helvetica) have greater x-height then Arial. > Also Verdana is very "wide" typeface. If you take a body of text in > Verdana and Arial you'll notice that Arial (or Helvetica) text usually > has greater count of words per line and it's somewhat easier to follow > text line with your eyes (you could perhaps say that text has better > legibility). Same legibility using Verdana can be achieved by giving > her more line height. > > And, since it is easier to change the font family then line-height and > keep "same dose of legibility", I think it is better to leave Arial > (12px base font size) as one of default Blueprint fonts because it > goes well with 18px line height. > If you would try to use Verdana with 12px base font size and use 20 or > 22 pixel line height you would have values like 1.666em and 1.833em > (rounded up) for your body line height, and that's messy. It would be > better to use 64,5% base font size, etc. Or at least I think so :) > > You can play around and compare various fonts here: > http://www.typetester.org/ > > Davor > > P.S. Also, feel free to disregard all this as i am not nearly a > typography nor CSS expert. :) > > > > -- http://sudhanshuraheja.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
