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  • #33337
    raman2572
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    lets share our views about the best font for article or post body ,, ideal font-size ,,, ideal line-height ,,,best font color ,,,best letter spacing

    #82709
    raman2572
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    dont you think #444 color is light for text when background is white

    #82710
    jamygolden
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    body{color: #333; font: 14px/1.5 sans-serif;}

    That will be Arial for Windows and Helvetica for OSx. As far as I know, Verdana is the most legible font. So perhaps Verdana, sans-serif.

    #82713
    jamygolden
    Member

    On my site, I’ve gone with:

    font: 16px/1.5 "myriad-pro-1","myriad-pro-2",HelveticaNeue,sans-serif;

    @sl1dr yeah verdana doesn’t always look very pretty.

    #82717
    shazdeh
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    Seen HTML5 Boilerplate talk by Paul Irish? verdana, Myriad and Arial, none of these are available on all three platforms. Best is to let browser decide which font looks best. This is the code they use:

    /* Font normalization inspired by YUI Library's fonts.css: developer.yahoo.com/yui/ */
    body {
    font:13px/1.231 sans-serif;
    *font-size: small;
    }
    #82720
    jamygolden
    Member

    @shazdeh the reason why sans-serif is used in the boilerplate is because Arial looks better than Helvetica in Windows, and Helvetica looks better than Arial on a Mac. By using sans-serif, it defaults Windows to Arial and OSx to Helvetica. In the example I gave, sans-serif is a fallback in case Myriad pro and HelveticaNeue isn’t on the system.

    #82726
    raman2572
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    @jamy_za actually myriad-pro-1 is not a web safe font and is not available on each and every computer so give it a pass ::: so in the race of best web safe font ITS OUT

    #82728
    raman2572
    Participant

    now font-size:13px; is stated best by all ,,,,still confusion regarding best font

    #82730
    snillor
    Member

    I thought setting a font-size in pixels was a bad practice.

    I sometimes use Trebuchet MS, although I really hate it’s ampersand.

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