Comments on: The Top Five Best Fonts for Web

By: kim @ Survival Fire Starter

kim @ Survival Fire Starter — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:27:36 +0000

Another vote for Georgia, but I have been known to use Trebuchet from time to time.

By: Bryan Moore Creative Design

Bryan Moore Creative Design — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:02:29 +0000

I try to stick to the ones that are most browser compatible and you obviously can’t go wrong with Arial. I do like Trebuchet MS but I’ve heard some browsers don’t support it. I agree that Georgia is a good font and apparently very popular.

By: CloverFox

CloverFox — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:57:10 +0000

From time to time I do this research for a new client, to facilitate their choice of font. Last time, the winner was Georgia. I like it letter-wise, but not for numbers. I feel bound to use more widely compatible fonts, so how my pages look to me are how they look to others. If your audience can’t read it, either because of font appearance, background and/or content, and heaven knows, proper grammer et al has gone to the wayside, then click, on to the next site. Lately, aside from long-standing sans serif fonts, I like Verdana.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:18:57 +0000

hi – just a line to point out that Andrew who commented above is a spammer (possibly not even a real person but some kind of automated script) and that’s why “his” post is completely unsubstantive!

(look at the web site name linked to from the word “Andrew”)

By: berong

berong — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:58:14 +0000

i like Georgia…but i like Emma better:D

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:31:45 +0000

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

By: Web Articles

Web Articles — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:42:00 +0000

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

By: Catalog Printing

Catalog Printing — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:56:26 +0000

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.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:05:52 +0000

Good style. Send a link to friend.

By: Emma Selley

Emma Selley — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:45:02 +0000

I’d forgotten about Helvetica… Oooops