Web Design: Which Font is Safe to Use?

Paul Morgan       – NYC, NY
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company

Web Design: Which Font is Safe to Use?

Have you noticed the set of fonts installed in your personal computer? Do you sometimes find it hard to choose which one to use? Then blame it to the computer manufacturers or to your computer’s operating system.

We may not notice it, but these font sets may vary from one computer to another. And if you are a true-blooded web designer, you know that the font you should use for your site is the one that’s common to the majority of computers around. Remember that if you will choose a font that’s new to your reader’s eyes because you’re thinking they may find it interesting, you’re wrong. Most of the time, that font may seem strange and unattractive on your visitor’s computer.

So what will you do to make your fonts look good on most of the computers these days? Well the answer is simple: you should use “Web Safe” fonts. If this term is new to you, Web safe fonts are those fonts that are very common and can be found installed on almost all computers in the world.

Professional web designers rarely use non-Web-safe fonts because they know that they are not that easy to read. If a visitor cannot read what’s on your site, then you failed in communicating with him or her. And so, the primary reason of having a website isn’t achieved. Even if your visitor struggles to understand what’s written there, your site will render useless because it will retain very few readers that would never want to come back.

Using fonts that are web-safe is one way to make your site not just user-friendly, but also browser-friendly. They are user-friendly because they don’t strain the eyes of the readers, they easily convey the message, and they don’t make it hard for the visitors to understand what the site is all about. On the other hand, they are browser safe because they come pre-installed in almost all types of operating systems.

Some of the web-safe fonts are the following:

• Arial
• Arial Black
• Comic Sans
• Courier New
• Georgia
• Impact
• Lucida Console
• Lucida Sans Unicode
• Palatino Linotype
• Tahoma
• Times New Roman
•  Trebuchet MS
• Verdana
•  MS Sans Serif 

  Web safe fonts should be used on the site’s text headers, content, and links. Should you decide to employ normal text as your site’s logo, then you should also use web safe font for that. As a general rule, everything on your site that appears as normal text should use a font that’s web safe.  

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