Whats a nice simple web safe font??

[- |Flash Man| -]

Hey all,

Just trying to choose my web safe font to use for my design and i want something that would be like clear text...no jagged edges...nice and smooth something maybe along the lines of Arial...anyways what's all your suggestions/past experiences?

Thanks in advance!!
:D

[thats all folks]

Have you tried Trebuchet MS??

[- |Flash Man| -]

no yet but i will....but also the other issue i was thinking of was if the user doesn't have that font installed on their computer it would revert back to the ugly default correct?

[thats all folks]

Here's a good resource, I know Trebuchet is on Mac & PC

http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/fonts.html

[- |Flash Man| -]

yeh i have tried a few of those...but now i know that Trebuchet MS works on mac OSX and PC i'll be using that one...seems to work very well with my design.

Cheers!!
:D

[eldix]

http://typetester.maratz.com/
a great resource

[tommythewolfboy]

Just make sure that you specify a number of alternatives in your css in case the person reading the page does not have your font installed.
e.g.
font: 62.5%/1.4em arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
In this instance it will try and render the page in arial - if that isn't installed it will attempt to use helvetica, and if that isn't installed then any other sans-serif font. No reason why you can't add more fonts to the list than the example above.

[tommythewolfboy]

Oh yeah - ref the 62.5% bit in the code above - http://clagnut.com/blog/348/. This is a technique for using em for font size, which means it is scalable in older versions of IE.

[wes_design]

I also concur with Trebuchet MS

http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResults.shtml#results