We just addressed the same question at my company. During my research, I did find a report online that indicated that Verdana was preferred significantly over Arial (it's so much more open), but the trade-off in spacing are tremendous. Unfortunately, I can't find it to send you the link.)
Tahoma is a nice compromise, and unless the majority of your end users are Windows NT users, you should be okay on Windows. Of course, your CSS would always need to have some options (for instance: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif), but Tahoma (and Trebuchet for that matter) ships with most Windows versions up through Vista. Here's a good article that compares them: http://www.webaim.org/techniques/fonts/#screenfonts Now, Vista opens up a whole new can of worms with the new (and quite lovely) "C" fonts. I get the impression they will be shipped "instead of" and not "in addition to" the familiar core fonts. This article is worth a read: http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Downloading_and_Using_Vista_Web_Fonts. Julie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benoît Meunier Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Arial vs Vernada? For a better reading experience: *Arial or Verdana?* - If Arial is smaller than Verdana, why do we use arial for the majority of web apps? - If there any studies or facts about that? Comments? -- Benoît Meunier +1 514-574-3142 www.benoitmeunier.info ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
