Poll: What font family do you prefer for Web page text?
Thursday April 17, 2008
- cursive - Comic Sans
- fantasy - Impact or Charcoal
- monospace - Courier or Courier New
- sans-serif - Arial, Geneva, or Helvetica
- serif - Times, Times New Roman, or Palatino
Note: this poll is asking about the font used for the majority of text on Web pages - not headlines or fancy text.
What font family do you prefer for Web page text?
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Comments
I have to say, I did vote for sans-serif. I use that family the most, but there are times when serif seems to fit the bill better. I get bored always looking at sans-serif… when an entire page is filled with it.
I find I’ll use serif to make a quote stand out or otherwise highlight something in a “newsy” kind of fashion. Sometimes, a set of instructions in an ordered list begs to be in serif for some reason.
The other three famillies I use for very limited, specific uses such as for “code” snippets, signature emulation, etc.
Ellen,
Thank you for stating WHY. I do the opposite, but for the same reasons. I favor Georgia with an “eye-relief” font of Tahoma.
I also provide a font-sizer for my elderly viewers. Mine is a genealogy site.
Happy Dae.
http://www.ShoeStringGenealogy.com
I think that on a web page is better to use sans serif because it’s on a display, so it’s easier to read (we can’t forget the pixel..).
But I think serif fonts are so beautiful…
I tend to use sans-serif fonts for most of my page display, but use serif fonts for things like headings. Having just one font over an entire site is definitely droll after a while so to get some variety every little bit is a good thing in my opinion.
Please help me understand how 3% picked Comic Sans and why.
I often use serif fonts against sans-serif for contrast and to help hierarchize different types of information, especially in text-heavy “document” style pages with lots of headers (such as a posted resume or instruction set). So I’d like to note that use of one font type doesn’t really preclude the other for me. So I’d like to second Mike’s point.
Well, comic sans isn’t the only cursive font…
Seriously, since there is at least one site that hates comic sans, I figure there must be at least one person who loves it…