RE: Typeface for print and online documentation

["Krezel, Lillian" <Lillian -dot- Krezel -at- metavante-eb -dot- com>]

I just went through this a couple of weeks ago, trying to clean up a CSS for
a Web-served application that had a mish-mash of font specifications.

Unfortunately, none of the designed-for-web fonts, nor any "commonly-used"
fonts, are *monotype* as well as sans-serif. So now we have screens that are
mostly Arial (the software engineer doesn't "like" Verdana) with
aligned-column data in Courier. UGH!

Lili


Salette Latas quoted:
>>>>>>>>>>>>

"Also consider choosing typefaces from among the growing number of faces
that are being designed specifically for display on screen..., such as
Verdana, a sans serif typeface, and Georgia, a serif face."

"Some newer fonts such as Verdana, Georgia and Trebuchet have been designed
to look good on a Web page. They have been designed to be sympathetic with
the natural pixel grid. Not just their letter shapes, but their body heights
and letter-spacing have been optimised for screen legibility."

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