On 2010/06/27 16:57 (GMT+0200) Peter Hammarling composed: > David, for someone whose contributions here are so consistently > helpful and well-informed your crusade against Verdana is difficult to > comprehend, and out of place on this list. Several times I've nearly > risen to the bait of previous comments but held back 'cos it's nothing > to do with css. Unfortunately you might even succeed here and there in > seeding uninformed prejudice against one the most legible sans > currently available for common use, cross-platform, on the web.
> As a starter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Carter As finishers: http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html http://www.zeldman.com/2010/04/18/verdana-pro-and-con-2/ Quoting the latter (you do know who L. Jeffrey Zeldman is, right?): "Verdana is a font that looks gorgeous at 11px in a non-antialiased environment, and handsome at 9px and 10px in that same setting. Make it any bigger than 11px, and it looks _grotesque_. Set it via ems or percentages rather than pixels—as most accessibility-conscious designers do—and you ding its perfection. View it in a sub-pixel antialiased environment (i.e. on a modern platform) and, if it is small enough and near enough to an exact pixel size, it still looks nice and reads well … but not nearly as nice or as well as it does in the environment for which it was originally created." (emphasis supplied) On my systems, 11px is never a legibly large enough size, so Verdana is never a good choice, unless grotesque mousetype is a goal, and attractiveness is not. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
