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Old February 23rd, 2005, 10:33 AM
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Trouble finding that perfect font
Well ive ben doing my site for a few months and i really thought Tahoma was the font for me. Well after i started adding chunks of text to my page (as before i had only been graphically designing it) i found Tahoma wasn't right. It fitted for my side menu and it also worked for the logo and top menu but when it came to a paragraph of text it seemed really ugly. I think the problem is the size and the fact its so thin but i cant change that otherwise it doesnt fit. I tried Microsoft Sans Serif which also seemed to fit the style but that still doesnt seem right.

The site is http://www.leeksoftware.co.uk and i would like to know what sort of font would fit. If you check out the tutorial you'll see why Tahoma doesn't look right.

Does anyone have any recommendations?
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Old February 23rd, 2005, 12:53 PM
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Arial...cliched, perhaps, but, it's a goody.
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Verdana's good, but can be quite wide. I also like Lucida sans and Helveltica.

Those are about all the cross-platform ones you can really rely on
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Thanks for the suggestions. I'm going to try Lucida Sans.
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Have you fully thought of the company name? Why not try Leek Software Design/Development. You could advert: "Not satisfied with your web-site design? Why not try LSD?!"
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Old February 25th, 2005, 05:22 AM
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Those are about all the cross-platform ones you can really rely on
Someone hasn't heard of SIFR.
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SimonGreenhill agrees: Thanks for the link - this looks interesting
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Old February 25th, 2005, 05:30 AM
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Someone hasn't heard of SIFR.


Talk about accessibility... On my IE 80% of the time the page does not load. Either I get a page full of nonsense, or a dialog whether I want to download the file or open it.
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Old February 25th, 2005, 05:37 AM
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Works fine for my IE6
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Old February 25th, 2005, 05:40 AM
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IE5.5, company policies restrict some stuff... like javascript :-)

I do build javascript-only sites as well, but the site should always notify, if it requires javascript. All I got was that nonsense. Or save page -dialog.
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Old February 25th, 2005, 05:42 AM
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It doesn't require javascript, it should just render the page normally without it.
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you could always try 'lucida grande' or as mentionned 'arial'. 'trebuchet ms' is also a good idea to try.
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Does anyone have any recommendations?

Personally I prefer Sans-serif fonts for headings and titles, and serif fonts for body text.... I just find it makes reading the page easier.
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