New Website to Critique

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Is your advice to use arial, or perhaps universe? I would
be pleased to know.

I normally use the following in my style sheets:

body {
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
....

 

[Bergamot]

Is your advice to use arial, or perhaps universe?

How about font-family:sans-serif;
and let the visitor see their preferred default font?

Any specific font assignment depends on the design, but most times the
generic family is as suitable as any other.

 

[Adrian]

How about font-family:sans-serif;
and let the visitor see their preferred default font?

Any specific font assignment depends on the design, but most times the
generic family is as suitable as any other.

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True, but there aren't many fonts that are very clear on a screen.
When I write software applications verdana is my favourite, but
that doesn't seem to be a good choice vor websites.
Adrian.

 

[Adrian]

I normally use the following in my style sheets:

body {
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
...

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Thanks, in future I will use one of those.
Adrian.

 

[Neredbojias]

All I ever keep around here is gin and vodka and the stuff it takes
to make gin-of-vodka tonics and bloody marys.

That's pretty hardcore. Gin is _distilled_; bourbon and scotch are
_crafted_. I don't know what vodka is but wouldn't be surprised if it
were an element of some Bolshevik plot designed to undermine American
capitalism. Perhaps you should have been born a sturgeon...

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Thanks, in future I will use one of those.

Don't use 'one' of them; place the whole line in your stylesheet so
visitors who don't have one will get the next fall-back.

 

[Neredbojias]

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True, but there aren't many fonts that are very clear on a screen.
When I write software applications verdana is my favourite, but
that doesn't seem to be a good choice vor websites.
Adrian.

Bah, don't be a noodle! Verdana is fine as long as you don't _misuse_
it (i.e. by making it too small, etc.)

I've read many web pages delineating objections to Verdana, and it's
like _anything_ else: the font _can be_ screwed-up if the proper care
isn't taken with its usage.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Bah, don't be a noodle! Verdana is fine as long as you don't
_misuse_ it (i.e. by making it too small, etc.)

Correctamundo. Too many authors choose Verdana, then set the font size
at 80% or some other ridiculous small size - because Verdana looks too
large in their browsers! Well, yeah. This of course penalizes users
who don't have it, who then see their standard-sized default font in
micro-size.

Verdana is an overly-large font when compared to all the other widely
used ones.

 

[Neredbojias]

Correctamundo. Too many authors choose Verdana, then set the font
size at 80% or some other ridiculous small size - because Verdana
looks too large in their browsers! Well, yeah. This of course
penalizes users who don't have it, who then see their standard-sized
default font in micro-size.

Absolutely true. Ergo, if you use Verdana, you must want a
larger-appearing font that's also okay at normal size (-for those who
don't have the font.) And as you intimated, don't reduce its size.

Verdana is an overly-large font when compared to all the other widely
used ones.

That doesn't mean it's unusable.

 

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2009-01-20, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
...

Verdana is an overly-large font when compared to all the other widely
used ones.

Verdana is only a little larger that Helvetica or Arial.
Helvetica/Arial is much closer in size to Verdana than it is to
Times Roman.

A page in Times with font-size: 100% is usually too small for me
to read easily. Helvetica or Verdana is comfortable.

I prefer to leave the font for blocks of text unspecified, so that
it is at the user's preferred size and font.

 

[asdf]

On 2009-01-20, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
..

Verdana is only a little larger that Helvetica or Arial.
Helvetica/Arial is much closer in size to Verdana than it is to
Times Roman.

A page in Times with font-size: 100% is usually too small for me
to read easily. Helvetica or Verdana is comfortable.

I prefer to leave the font for blocks of text unspecified, so that
it is at the user's preferred size and font.

--
Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://Woodbine-Gerrard.com>
===================================================================
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

At last! Somebody slagging off Times New Roman on accessibility grounds!
(and I agree wholeheartedly)

 

[Blinky the Shark]

That should be "gin-or-vodka", of course.

That's pretty hardcore. Gin is _distilled_; bourbon and scotch are
_crafted_. I don't know what vodka is but wouldn't be surprised if it
were an element of some Bolshevik plot designed to undermine American
capitalism. Perhaps you should have been born a sturgeon...

Well, my father's name *was* Theodore...

 

[Neredbojias]

That should be "gin-or-vodka", of course.


Well, my father's name *was* Theodore...

Ah yes, Theodore Sturgeon, the great sf writer. I was a sf fanatic
back in the "old days" and read many-a TS piece. Anyway, to let the
cat out of the bag, I don't really drink, and when I did, beer was my
primary choice. The last real favorite I remember was "St. Pauli Girl"
dark, but I think they all change in time.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Ah yes, Theodore Sturgeon, the great sf writer. I was a sf fanatic back
in the "old days" and read many-a TS piece. Anyway, to let the cat out of
the bag, I don't really drink, and when I did, beer was my primary choice.
The last real favorite I remember was "St. Pauli Girl" dark, but I think
they all change in time.

You never forget your first girl...

 

[Travis Newbury]

I've put together an interesting little website called The Grand
Unified Problem Solver atwww.grandsolver.com. Would you be willing
to check it out and send me any critiques you may have?

PU