Please help me to choose the font face for the menu

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by locdev, Jun 9, 2009.

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Which menu font should I use? (please view the picture attached before voteing)

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  1. #1
    Hi all,
    I'm developing an email marketing system (web based) and want to change the menu font face. I'm not a designer myself but I don't need anything ultra-designed. I just want to make the menu to look standard and not ugly ;)

    I've googled the web about the standard font for the menu and didn't found any good articals about that.



    please view the options image here :
    http://landofcash.net/menu-fonts.png

    Thanks
    Mikhail
     
    locdev, Jun 9, 2009 IP
  2. mubheer@mvs.us

    mubheer@mvs.us Peon

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    it all look same to me. choose arial. its always better choice
     
    mubheer@mvs.us, Jun 9, 2009 IP
  3. locdev

    locdev Active Member

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    I would choose Arial.

    There seem to be only 5 typefaces used in your image. Why are there 8 choices?
     
    firebolt, Jun 20, 2009 IP
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    marketjunction Well-Known Member

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    Helvetica is a great font (even has a movie about it).

    Another choice is Verdana, which was designed with screen viewing in mind.
     
    marketjunction, Jun 20, 2009 IP
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    I use these:

    Arial, 'Arial Unicode', "Lucida Unicode", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma, sans-serif

    My font size is 11px, not pt (point).

    I wouldn't use helvetica, because it's not installed on many computers. Adobe still owns it I believe. Whatever font you decide on, it should be a common one installed on the users computer. Don't use just one, use several in the body tag style so if one isn't found, it will try the next. This is why I use 6 fonts on my website. Your emails should also have several fonts in the body tag and use UTF-8 encoding.
     
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    Trebuchet is the font-family that I use personally
     
    Nandamuri, Jun 20, 2009 IP