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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Fonting your Face

Speaking of fonts, I prefer Verdana, which was designed for web usage, by the great, unregulated utility, Microsoft:


Indeed, Verdana is so much more readable than other common fonts of the same sizes that some have suggested that web authors not specify it for the body text of a web page, because then the author is likely to select a font size that makes the text unreadable when Verdana is unavailable

As for Ambigrams, there is no reason not to find occasion to use the "naked alphabet".

(Separately, I hate websites that do not allow you change the size of the font! The W3C has guidelines for readability related to color contrasts. White-on-black is one of the visually least reader-friendly formats, even though black seems to appeal to many people's layout aesthetics. MIT has a media group that actually studies these things ... I think they may even get paid.)