Week 5 Popular Fonts

This week, I found an article which is about fonts. The link is
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/fonts/

In the article, the author points out that Verdana is one of the most popular fonts on the web. Because it has a simple, straightforward design, and the characters or glyphs are not easily confused for the visitors. For example, the upper-case "I" and the lower-case "L" have unique shapes, unlike Arial, in which the two glyphs may be easily confused. See it below:

Besides, for using Verdana, there is the spacing between letters. This make sure the readability when they are at small sizes.

Another popular font is Trebuchet MS. It has its own style and artistic feel. It is also readable, but some letters such as the ampersand (&), which may decrease readability. You can see this example below:


I think this type of font is really attactive, because its artistic style is different from other fonts. If we use them to be the heading in the website, it surely can draw the attention of visitor because of its appearance.

Georgia is also common on the web. It is a serif font, more along the lines of Times New Roman. For the size, it is wider than similar fonts meant for print design. Since Georgia is not the default text of the browser, the users can see and find that some styles has been applied to the font.

In my opinion, we should choose the fonts carefully for the web design. All we need to remember is that they should be readable. Also, the fonts we choose can attact visitor's attention and make the website's look different from the others.