[thelist] Verdana Defence - was CSS Validation

David Dorward evolt at david.us-lot.org
Wed Jan 21 10:20:43 CST 2004


On 21 Jan 2004, at 16:12, kris burford wrote:

>
>> I suggest you also ditch Verdana - 
>> http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=Verdana
>
> can understand why from a layout perspective, however there's an 
> interesting usability report at 
> http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/41/onlinetext.htm 
> that concludes:
>
> "Verdana appears to be the best overall font choice. Besides being the 
> most preferred, it was read fairly quickly and was perceived as being 
> legible."

Which is a good argument for using it either:

* In a document style sheet, so long as you don't mind things looking 
unusually large

or

* In a user style sheet, so long as you don't mind putting your 
preferences above the poor designer who suffered so hard in picking a 
nice font for his page. >:)


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