Typography in your Web organisation is undoubtedly important. For some time now, it's been taught and experienced that using a sans-serif type is the best pick for tender noesis and super blocks of book in Web design, patch line fonts should be distant for ingest in small doses or as the style of pick for your headings. WPDFD even has a rattling recent article that states this. Some other places you crapper encounter this teaching:



* About.com

* Urban Fonts

* Web Design Reference

In a nutshell, here are some of the key points in using sans-serif fonts.

* Sans-serif fonts countenance beatific at most sizes.

* They run to hit a more equal or business feel.

* Most operating systems intercommunicate them neatly.

* Serif fonts run to retrograde readability at smaller sizes.

* Serif fonts, when viewed on a Windows computer, haw countenance terrible. This is because Windows has a ClearType ability that smoothes the edges of concealment fonts, which would attain the line fonts countenance good, but some Windows computers don't hit this option overturned on by default.

* Sans-serif fonts, on the other hand, crapper countenance beatific with or without

Windows' ClearType overturned on.

Overall, artful with sans-serif fonts for your main noesis is a beatific general typography conception for your Web design. Many often-visited sites ingest sans-serif fonts for viewing on the web, and it certainly works substantially for them. Google is an obvious example. Also, Microsoft and Yahoo study this convention. Especially prominent sites in our possess field, like A List Apart ingest it to rattling beatific effect. And if you'll verify a hurried countenance around, you'll notice WPDFD sticks mainly to sans-serif fonts, as well.

But. (You knew that was coming, didn't you?)

I fired up my RSS reader recently and came across a fairly attractive tender with an entry most artful with identify characters. This particular tender doesn't touch directly on using serifs in Web design, but I found it cushy to read.

It was also fairly refreshing. Seeing so some sans-serif fonts utilised in only so some ways on the Web isn't exactly tiresome, but it certainly does lend a destined charm to line fonts when you seem them executed substantially in Web design.

That same tender above also has course to a some other pages that ingest line fonts well. For your convenience, I'll link them here, too, and include my thoughts:

* Twisted Intellect

I like this page. It reads substantially and it's a rattling foppish design. The typography here is rattling nice.

* The 3rd SEED Conference

While Twisted Intellect uses line fonts, it doesn't ingest them for lots of content. The 3rd SEED Conference does exactly the opposite: the whole organisation is line fonts; no images. It's just layout, placement, and typography. This is executed beautifully and I rattling like what's been done here.

There are some other sites I've come across patch just browsing leisurely, too, that caught my receptor with their ingest of serifs.

* Jens Meiert: Why Reset Style Sheets are Bad

This is a good-looking, minimalistic blog that uses line fonts to beatific effect. And hey, the tender even touches on an interesting topic.

* Fun With Fonts

This is not only a cute short news most a robot; it's also a beatific ingest of typography. The line type here accomplishes its employ rattling well.

The examples of good-looking pages above were all delightful to countenance at and to read. As opposed to sans-serif fonts, it seems that line fonts do verify a bit more skill for a Web specializer to hit effectively, but the payoffs crapper be quite impressive.

Things to keep in mind

From what I crapper see, there are numerous advantages and disadvantages to using a line font.