Everything I've read about and them adds to my personal opinion - they're good fonts to use. Three sans-serifs are available: Calibri, Candara, and Corbel. If you're using Office 2007 or later, the ClearType collection comes into play. I've personally never minded Trebuchet as a choice, but it doesn't seem to be as common.
These advantages will become less relevant as pixel density increases, but they're good things to look for in a screen font for now.Īrial is almost universally panned by designers (see above link), Impact isn't practical outside of headlines, and even though Tahoma is more or less Verdana's skinny brother, it doesn't tend to draw as much praise. It was one of the first fonts that was designed with readability on the screen particularly in mind, so it has a large x-height (good for seeing the lowercase letters) and is well-hinted. A scientific study (funded by Microsoft, so take with a grain of salt) touted Verdana's readability, particularly at small sizes. Also, MoMA added it to its design collection, calling it (and the others in the collection) "a milestone in the history of typography". It was designed by Matthew Carter, a respected typeface designer, and the design itself is pretty original, so it doesn't get panned for its existence and history as much as Arial does. It's well-designed and is designed to be readable on the screen. Of the original " web-safe" (that is, as close to universal as you'll get on the Web) sans-serifs (Arial, Impact, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, Verdana), Verdana tends to get the most love.
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