This is a perennial issue. Since "good looking" is ultimately subjective, there is no answer to the question. Common fonts include arial, new times roman, courier, Helvetica, and verdana (add personal favorites here). And users can pick their own anyway.
For a detailed discussion of font see http://www.w3c.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html The chapter discusses the amorphous nature of fonts and suggests procedural means for working around the seeming confusion of terminology and definition. So the short answer is 1) pick a few and include the appropriate serif or sans-serif generic or 2)go with generics and let the browser pick the appropriate default. In any case don't rely on any font to make the page work. drew -----Original Message----- From: Jurgen Haug Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] website w/examples about usable fonts for webpages? Hi guys, I am often wondering what kind of font to use on webpages, is there anywhere a page that gives examples of good looking fonts that are widespread (meaning not only installed on Windows XP, or only on Mac). -- regards, Jurgen ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
