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The Top Five Best Fonts for Web

Posted by Emma Selley in Featured Articles on 03 17th, 2008 | 14 responses




Whilst deciding on what font to use for a new web design project, it occured to me that I always use pretty much the same font everytime.

It’s inevitable that the same few fonts will be chosen again and again because not all computers will have those “special” fonts installed, but in my case, even though there are a selection of “safe” fonts to choose from, I always undoubtedly end up choosing “Lucida Sans Unicode”, or “Trebuchet MS”.

Now, you may be wondering why I’ve chosen “Tahoma” for this site if I always end up selecting “Lucida Sans Unicode” and “Trebuchet MS”. The simple answer to that question is: I wanted to try something different.

Don’t get me wrong, “Tahoma” is a widely used font and undeniably an “old-school” font (I remember using it when I first started dabbling in web design nearly ten years ago!), but at the moment there are so many blog sites using “Lucida Sans Unicode” and “Trebuchet MS” that I thought I’d try and break away from those fonts.

So, this all leads me to list off my Top Five Best Fonts for Web.

1. Lucida Sans Unicode

2. Trebuchet MS

3. Tahoma

4. Georgia

5. Arial

This is my opinion only - please feel free to add comments and let me know what your favourite fonts are!

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14 Comments »

  1. May be you can get information which you were exactly searching on Georgia Web Design fonts and their services you will find all the infromations on fonts etc., regarding web design.

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  3. Darren Says:

    Old School fonts are great in my opinion. Only because 98% of computers sold to the general public today will run with IE (the black death) and unfortunately IE is and will forever be behind the curve of web standards and design. At the same time I don’t see FF taking on a great challenge of creating a repository of new and old fonts, then embedding into an auto update structure to use these fonts on it’s browsers. With the *potentially* millions of fonts out there, this would be fun and more creative for the designer’s world.

    And I like Georgia.

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  4. Emz Says:

    Thanks for your response Darren. Yes I agree that old school fonts are great because almost everybody will have that font installed and you know your site is going to look correct all the time.

    Georgia is a great font :)

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  5. i liked Georgia its great font which everybody will have that font to install.

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  6. Andrew Says:

    I was getting pretty edgy reading this. If I say I’m disagreeing with your post I would say nothing. Reading this is meaningless waste of time.

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  7. Emz Says:

    Andrew, I have no problem with you disagreeing with me. It would be nice if you clarified your reasons why though.

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  8. Hi Emz, thanks for the post! I am also very fond of Lucida and Trebuchet, but everyone knows that Helvetica runs the show! Cheers :)

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  9. I’d forgotten about Helvetica… Oooops :)

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  10. Sam Says:

    Good style. Send a link to friend.

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  11. My faves are Helvetica and Georgia for the Web and Garamond for print. Although, really, it just depends on what the content is and what I want the reader to feel. I think font choice is the most important design decision to make and I generally try to figure that out first, or at least in my first few steps of planning a Web or print design.

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  12. Ahhh you forgot about Verdana! Verdana is one of my favorites and is widely used.

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  13. Seth Says:

    Hi all - first time poster here.

    Let me start off by saying that all the above is subjective. The important thing as web designer is to design a site with the font that your client likes! Well, that’s assuming your client is happy with the system fonts available. This is key as otherwise you don’t really have control of your site once it goes live.

    Check this out for a list of system fonts and their default replacements: http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

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  14. berong Says:

    i like Georgia…but i like Emma better:D

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