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Recommended Fonts?

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06-10-2008, 11:12 PM
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Hey guys im working on a design whcih i plan to use and im looking for some good fonts.

It's a nice sleek design, I'm using myrad pro and what not for headers and stuff, but i need a good font for the body or whatever.

Is there anything else nice besides Times new roman, arial, tohoma

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Verdana.

06-10-2008, 11:44 PM
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Georgia's also quite nice when in the right context. Here's a handy list of ones that are pretty common. There really aren't that many to choose from >.<

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Font selection should match the design of the whole page.
I would use serif fonts (Georgia, Times) for a different design style then the sans-serif ones (Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet, Arial).

You can use Typetester to check how a particular font is working for body text.

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Geo Sans Light, very crisp, thin and clean font

http://www.dafont.com/geo-sans-light.font

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I like Tahoma works great for me.

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Originally Posted by AlexWind View Post
Geo Sans Light, very crisp, thin and clean font

http://www.dafont.com/geo-sans-light.font
KewL was asking for a body font recommendations and "Geo Sans Light" is not a common one, so it would be replaced on most visitors' machines.
Much more popular similar fonts are Gill Sans and Avantgarde.

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Verdana, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS

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i like verdana, if your looking for a bit crazier go zapfino (crazy cursive)

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Trebuchet MS should be good.

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