Re: Which Font for Websites?

[Felix Miata <mrmazda earthlink net>]

On 2010/01/08 03:59 (GMT+0100) Andreas Krappweis composed:

> which font do i have to use on a website to make the site be displayed
> correctly in Epiphany (standard installation)?

This isn't about fonts per se, or Epiphany. On my systems your page is a mess
in FF2, FF3, SM2.x, SM1.x, Epiphany 2.22 & Konq 3.5.9 as well.

> At the Moment I have on Tahoma, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial and sans-serif.

Eliminating Helvetica and Geneva, adding Liberation Sans (FOSS Arial virtual
clone), and starting with Helvetica Neue would all be good ideas, as well as
moving Tahoma in between sans-serif and the others or eliminating it too.

> With all Windows- and Apple- Browsers, and Ubuntu + Firefox it´s o.k., but
> watching my Site with Ubuntu + Epiphany the fonts grow larger and overflows
> the div´s.

> You may have a look: www.test.krappweis.com 

The problems are many:

1-Markup doesn't validate: http://tinyurl.com/ye6rna9
2-CSS doesn't validate: http://tinyurl.com/yc2ngu6
3-The overall design is fighting the inherent nature of the web to be
flexible and accommodating. Among other things, the font sizes you specify
totally disregard user preferences and needs. Users who force text to legible
sizes will not be able to read much due to all the overlapping and content
hiding resulting from your inflexible CSS rules.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/article/web-fonts/
http://www.informationarchitects.jp/100e2r?v=4
http://www.lighthouse.org/accessibility/legible/
http://www.dev-archive.net/articles/font-analogy.html
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/

Take a look at http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ and http://cssliquid.com/ for
some good examples of really good and usable designs, and
http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/Sites/ksc/ for a somewhat simplified example.

Which Epiphany version are you using?
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