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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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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.
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 
i liked Georgia its great font which everybody will have that font to install.
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.
Andrew, I have no problem with you disagreeing with me. It would be nice if you clarified your reasons why though.
Hi Emz, thanks for the post! I am also very fond of Lucida and Trebuchet, but everyone knows that Helvetica runs the show! Cheers
I’d forgotten about Helvetica… Oooops
Good style. Send a link to friend.
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.
Ahhh you forgot about Verdana! Verdana is one of my favorites and is widely used.
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
i like Georgia…but i like Emma better:D
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”)
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.
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.
Another vote for Georgia, but I have been known to use Trebuchet from time to time.
I almost always stick with Arial. I think its the easiest to read and is also very tidy so it looks good as well…
Great post, thank you. I like Georgia, just for e-commerce site the prices figures looks strange. I will have A/B testing with different font (Helvetica)to see if that will have an effect of my results.
I preferred using Tahoma when I wrote kiddo topics, I love using Georgia for italics, but most of a time I used Trebuchet, Verdana and Helvetica.
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