Re:Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
by powrtoch on Thursday August 12, 2010 @02:41PM
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Personally I try to avoid putting Verdana or Georgia as backup fonts (In practice, the stacks you've listed are fine because almost no one will not have Arial installed, but by that logic you could leave out Verdana altogether). In principle, if we're imagining a situation where Arial isn't an option, falling back to Verdana will usually look pretty crazy, because Verdana is designed to appear so much larger. 12px Verdana just looks a lot bigger than 12px Arial. All this (including the part about it not mattering in practice) goes for Georgia (vs Times etc) as well.
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Re:Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
by notahacker on Friday August 13, 2010 @09:00AM
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Anyone that doesn't have Arial installed almost certainly won't have Verdana installed anyway. Helvetica would be a more logical fallback for those people who hate Arial so much they won't have it on their system...