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No one has ever been fired for choosing Times ;) Seriously, people don't care and they don't choose Time as much as it is either the default or the only font t
by tjoff 14y ago
No one has ever been fired for choosing Times ;)
Seriously, people don't care and they don't choose Time as much as it is either the default or the only font they know of.
And honestly, I use the default pretty much all the time (which seldom is Times nowadays). Back in early school I was told Verdana was better and since it was more spacious that made a strong argument for it as well, since it was easier to fill a page... I truly don't feel that I can say that a font is better than another one. It might look better but that might just as well be in a comic-sans way which would just be a disaster. Afraid of that I keep to the default.
Word processors should be much better at communicating this, the only thing they do is give you a default but other than that offer no help. For the typical person that whole font list would be better off removed entirely (and yet it has always had such a high priority among the GUI settings).
- Zecc 14y agoVerdana is the font I'm reading these comments in.
- ekimekim 14y agoThis bring up a good point. When reading documents (not so much posters, etc), I'd rather put the user in control of the display font. They can choose whatever is easiest for them to read, and it's uniform everywhere they go. For example, a friend of mine has his firefox set to use a fixed-width font on all pages. This is something no graphic designer would ever do, but he likes it.