January 10, 2005

Which font do you like best

I've wondered what font looks best for Vorlon Whispers. Please take a look at the samples below and decide which one you think is most readable. Microsoft claims all are designed to be readable.

The only trouble with doing this test is what fonts get displayed on your monitor depend pretty much what fonts you have installed on your machine.


Arial
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.


Comic Sans MS
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.


Georgia
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.


Trebuchet MS
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.


Verdana
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Georgia is the font I currently use. Do you think I should change?

Posted by Ted at January 10, 2005 8:01 PM
Comments

They all look the same in Safari [1.2.4 (v125.12)] on my Mac [Mac OS X 10.3.7]

Posted by: Peter at January 11, 2005 12:13 AM

I'd probably say that I like Georgia the best.

Posted by: jayseae at January 11, 2005 5:44 AM

That's part of the problem with trying to pick a font. I depends on the users machine. Sigh.

Posted by: Ted at January 11, 2005 6:10 AM

All of the fonts appear to be standard ones found on any fairly new Windows operating system.

All are easy to read. We're using Trebuchet MS on the Shapiro website and it looks nice.

Arial is always a classic. Comic Sans is used on quite a bit of website, but gets a little difficult if there is quite a bit of text.

I like Georgia and Verdana. I have poor eyesight and find that Verdana is easier to read as it spreads everything out slightly.

Posted by: Reb Orrell at January 14, 2005 7:51 AM