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April 13, 2006
Up For Vote
Since you guys showed me how to do it, I mocked it up. This is what the site looks like in Georgia. Now it goes for vote: if you like Verdana better, I'll switch it back. If Georgia is your preference, we'll keep it. As it is, I think Georgia looks good, but I need more spacing between lines. I'm sure some nice person can explain how to do that. Anyway, vote in comments. As Captain Planet would say, the power is yours.
Update: For comparative purposes, here's a grab of what the old font looks like. You might need to click in the grab window for it to zoom to scale, it's a big picture, and Firefox, at least, is zooming it out to 73%. Click, though, and it moves to full-size. The argument for Georgia is that the font is crisper, more professional. Verdana is bigger. I assume there are ways to make Georgia bigger as well, and someone said I could do some html trickery that would allow readers to use either one, but that seemed complicated.
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georgia all the way!
georgia is the bestest, most awesomest font EVER!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Kate | Apr 13, 2006 10:52:39 AM
although I hate Ezra and his stupid blog very deeply, I think Verdana's got to go. Pick your favorite font, m'boy! Don't let these people pull a General Sherman on your Georgia.
Posted by: Brian | Apr 13, 2006 10:53:23 AM
The font doesn't really mattter to me, but I kind of enjoy the sneak peek of Ezra's desktop...
Posted by: Mr Furious | Apr 13, 2006 10:58:33 AM
Until screen resolutions improve, go with the sans serif font (Veranda).
Time to clean out your mailbox when you're over 1000 unread messages.
Posted by: SP | Apr 13, 2006 11:01:09 AM
Either one.
Just stop googling Susan Anderson.
Posted by: shingles | Apr 13, 2006 11:06:42 AM
You may think the site is being rendered in Georgia, but I believe those who use MS IE are getting Verdana. It looks, quacks and walks like Verdana. Your old-site screen cap doesn't render at full size in MS IE, so it is useless for comparison.
I copied your first paragraph into Word (twice): it copies as Verdana (10pt).
Then I applied Georgia (10pt) to the second copy. Ugh! Much too condensed.
It is your site, so suit yourself - image being a thing of the mind that can't be easily understood externally.
I like Verdana much better because my eyes don't rebel reading it.
As to line spacing: in your css file, 'line-height' is the entity that controls this. Your css file is such a mess of non-formatting that I can't be sure which line-height in there is controlling body text, but it looks like it is set at 140%. In Verdana it is OK. In Georgia, I will go blind.
I'd suggest that you solicit a knowing friend to help you format and simplify your css file. Then you can tweak things much easier.
Posted by: JimPortlandOR | Apr 13, 2006 11:36:11 AM
Eh. Either way.
Posted by: TJ | Apr 13, 2006 11:51:04 AM
OMG: the site just switched to Georgia on my WinXP/MSIE system. I have a Dell laptop, with the wide screen set at 1280 by 800 pixels.
This Georgia change is NOT an improvement. The font size is very tiny and paras are very cramped. I don't know where you got the idea that serif fonts look more 'professional', but that isn't a widely shared viewpoint in the web world, IMO.
I don't want to be a nay-sayer, but I am.
Posted by: JimPortlandOR | Apr 13, 2006 12:04:30 PM
Oh, here we go. I liked Verdana better.
Posted by: Iron Lungfish | Apr 13, 2006 12:15:57 PM
I'm just waiting for Dave Justus to jump in and say that as the impartial voice he is very much against it whatever it is and for Fred to say Verdana is disrespectful to Christians and by the way Tom Delay is innocent, not that Fred voted for Bush or anything.
Posted by: chowchowchow | Apr 13, 2006 12:23:21 PM
Font doesn't matter too much to me. But since you're asking - Georgia is better than Verdana.
Re SP's comment above - that is NetNewsWire with over 1000 unread new articles. Not hard to do unfortunately. Also, did you know you can drag the Dashboard icon out of the dock, and dashboard still runs without taking up dock space? Useless factoid number 2344.
Posted by: Seth Anderson | Apr 13, 2006 1:03:41 PM
I like georgia better
Posted by: Kathleen | Apr 13, 2006 2:11:47 PM
Georgia is my personal fav.
Posted by: Dave | Apr 13, 2006 6:12:48 PM
Go with sans-serif (aka Verdana).
And since you're on OS X, you really ought to give Lucida Grande a try. While very similar to Verdana, it renders better on OS X. You'd need to specify Verdana as a fallback font for Windows users, but the code to do that has already been provided to you.
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And to repeat myself for the ninth time because I like saying it:
While serif fonts look spiffier at first glance on a website, sans-serif fonts have better readability over time.
Posted by: Petey | Apr 13, 2006 7:38:51 PM
"Time to clean out your mailbox when you're over 1000 unread messages."
Ezra has zero unread mail messages in that screenshot.
Posted by: Petey | Apr 13, 2006 7:45:41 PM
Verdana is mo' betta! Georgia isn't a bad font, but rather than being crisp, I see it as rather stodgy. Non-serif is easier to read as well.
Posted by: Aron | Apr 13, 2006 7:58:16 PM
I like the new font better, myself, but these folks conclude that Verdana is the best font, overall.
Posted by: Dave Empey | Apr 14, 2006 2:36:47 PM
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