Personally, I think a font size of 14 pixels is perfectly big enough. Many people believe that 16 pixels should be the ideal font size. Some examples of monospace fonts: Courierįont-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace įont-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace
It's not the most exciting font to use on your blog. It is sometimes referred to as typewriter text. Monospace letters have the same width for each character, so they always take up the same amount of space, like a typewriter. It is as the name suggests, a font that has it’s letters evenly spaced.
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Most webmasters and developers use mono-space for code samples or instructions. Some example of fantasy or cursive fonts: Papyrusįont-family: Lucida handwriting, Lucidia sans 9 on the list of most widely used and installed fonts and is easy to read and very popular BUT do you really want to use it? There is, of course, one exception, Comic Sans MS. If you wish to use these you should restrict them to headings or use them in images. These fonts are not widely available on computers and because they are 'fancy' and 'cursive' they can be very hard to read in large chunks. Some examples of 'sans serif' fonts: Arial, Helveticaįont-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif įont-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif įont-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif įont-family: 'MS Sans Serif', Geneva, sans-serif įont-family: 'MS Serif', 'New York', sans-serif įont-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif įont-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif įont-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif This makes them easier to read and thus, the perfect choice for your blog. These will display clearer, crisper and bolder on most monitor resolutions. Sans Serif fonts do not have the little hooks or serifs on the end of the letters. Some examples of 'serif' fonts: Bookman Old Styleįont-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif įont-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif However, these prints are perfect for print so it is safe to use them in any online documents that are intended for downloading and printing. Some monitors don't display these little hooks very well and they can become blurred or indistinguishable, particularly if the monitor has a low resolution. Serif fonts are those fonts that have little hooks (or 'Serifs') on the end of letters. These are the four different types (or families) of Web Safe Fonts: In other words, how will it display on a monitor? Once we have taken a look at the above chart and seen if our chosen font is one that is widely available we next have to consider how easy that font will be to read. There's not a lot of difference between any of the percentages for these fonts so you are fairly safe to use any of the both in the knowledge that they will be installed on the machine your reader is using. Here is a chart of the 10 most used/installed fonts on the web as of February 25th 2012 Font name These fonts are commonly known as 'web safe fonts' and you'll probably find the best font to use for your blog amongst them. So how do we know which fonts most people have? So when writing blog your blog posts and designing your blog themes, keep in mind the availability of fonts when choosing the best font to use for your blog. In fact, it will display the default font instead, which will not give the look you were hoping for and may well drive people away from your blog. So if you choose one of these fonts for your blog it will not display how you want it to on a machine that doesn't have that font installed. In particular, most people don't have the fancy fonts installed on their machines. When you choose the font you want, you need to remember that not every computer has every font installed on it. What's the best font to use for your blog or website? You may want to have fancy looking fonts and change fonts every other line but the experienced blogger knows, that when it comes to fonts and the web, it is always best to keep it simple.
The best way to have a great looking website or blog is to choose the right font.
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