Just a quick poll…
What fonts do you consider to be relatively screen-friendly? I mean
OTHER than the standard web-safe set?
When picking a font for use in bitmap graphic form, particularly at
smaller sizes, do you have any favourites or tried-and-trusted faces?
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On 27 Aug 2008, at 11:21, Keith Martin wrote:
What fonts do you consider to be relatively screen-friendly? I mean
OTHER than the standard web-safe set?
Do you mean for HTML use? I tried Century Gothic a while back on a
client site. It wasn’t particularly readable, to be honest, so we fell
back on a mix of Verdana and Georgia in the end.
When picking a font for use in bitmap graphic form, particularly at
smaller sizes, do you have any favourites or tried-and-trusted faces?
Leaving aside that I’m trying to train myself not to use graphic text
that often these days, I find I tend to stick to the tried and trusted
favourites. I seem to fall back on Futura, particularly condensed
forms for buttons and so on. I also find Frutiger reasonably legible
at small pixel sizes, too. So, I think my vote comes down on sans
serifs for graphic text work.
Heather
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What fonts do you consider to be relatively screen-friendly? I mean
OTHER than the standard web-safe set?
Do you mean for HTML use? I tried Century Gothic a while back
No, specifically for use as graphic images of type. I realise this
isn’t the mainstream approach to web design typesetting, but
sometimes it is simply the best way to go. For example, setting type
in a banner graphic, or in a Flash movie, or in video for that
matter… I’m interested in hearing what fonts people prefer for this
kind of thing.
Century Gothic is actually pretty good for graphic setting at
reasonably small sizes. And your choices of Futura and Frutiger ring
bells with me too.
Anyone else? Not necessarily just for very small text - although of
course when set big enough any font looks fine on screen. 
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Some of my favorites: Gotham, FF Din, Klavika, Rockwell
Corbel, Calibri and Constantia - part of the new fonts that ship with MicroSoft Vista. The ones from the Vista set can be used as html fonts providing the viewer is using Vista.
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Sometime around 27/8/08 (at 11:56 -0400) Helveticus said:
Some of my favorites: Gotham, FF Din, Klavika, Rockwell
Corbel, Calibri and Constantia - part of the new fonts that ship
with MicroSoft Vista. The ones from the Vista set can be used as
html fonts providing the viewer is using Vista.
A good point. They’re probably included with the latest Microsoft
Office suites as well, so they’ll become ‘web-moderately-safe’ fonts
over the next year or so. Although for this poll I’m not concerned
about that, of course.
Constantia is a rather nice wedge-serif face that does work rather
well at moderate sizes on screen, I’ve been using it recently myself.
Thanks for those. Anyone else?
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I’m confused, how can any of the fonts that aren’t in the web set be used as HTML?
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On 27 Aug 2008, 5:28 pm, Chris Poisson wrote:
I’m confused, how can any of the fonts that aren’t in the web set be used as HTML?
It’s strictly a gamble. You would be taking the risk that your intended audience might have the font installed.
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Sometime around 27/8/08 (at 13:28 -0400) Chris Poisson said:
how can any of the fonts that aren’t in the web set be used as HTML?
You’d need to make a custom font set, then use that when setting HTML text.
A font set is a collection of faces. These are what the browser tries
to use when rendering the text. If the first font isn’t installed on
the visitor’s computer then the second one will be tried, then the
third, and so on.
Correct spelling is important, as is quoting names that contain spaces.
I wrote a short article on this subject for MacUser a while back, and
you can see a version of what I said at
http://www.thetypographic.com/web-safe-fonts/
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Hey Kieth,
Well, that was easy, thanks.
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I have found that Myriad Pro is a good family of fonts to use for website graphics at all sizes. Have also used Officina Sans as well which is good for narrower text.
Hope this helps.
Gordon
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