texpad wrote: What kind of

Megan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:50:37 +0000

texpad wrote:

What kind of conflict is there between verdana and arial?

It's usually not good to use two fonts from the same family in the same design. see here for more:

http://www.apaddedcell.com/7-simple-rules-for-formatting-text-on-the-web

I was digressing about

texpad — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:42:28 +0000

I was digressing about readability. As I said (above), I like Georgia and Verdana because they are airy and pleasant onscreen.

Then, noting the font on this site, it occurred to me that my 12px/17px verdana looks huge compared to the 8px lucida here (so lucida is "tiny", i.e. appears to be tiny). But both are easy to read. It's all context, in other words.

What kind of conflict is there between verdana and arial?

You should be able to do

Megan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:48:46 +0000

You should be able to do this instead:

#special_page {
	font-family: verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size : 12px;
	line-height : 18px;
}

#special_page ul {
	list-style : none;
	}

#special_page p.abstract {
	font-size : 15px;
	font-weight:bold;
	}

Everything inside #special_page should inherit the font settings. Repeating the font-family in the corporate stylesheet is what caused this problem in the first place

If you really wanted to get rid of everything in the #special_page area you could just put a CSS reset in there (look it up!).

Quote:

Much check back here again, like the site design.

Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying it. I hope to see you around in the future

So you don't feel the arial

Megan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:41:59 +0000

So you don't feel the arial and verdana are conflicting then? Your prerogative, really

texpad wrote:

Of course this site is all pleasantly readable as well and the font is "tiny" - by the way, what HAVE they used here for body text (webdeveloper can't get to the bottom of it)? Anyone know?

This is our font stack: "Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Eras Medium ITC","Bitstream Vera Sans",Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif

Do you find the font to be too small? Which browser/OS are you on?

...oh, and: I think Verdana

texpad — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:23:59 +0000

...oh, and: I think Verdana can go with arial, if they've got clearly separate functions. In this case the navigation links are all business-like arial off to the side and verdana is the eye-pleasing content. On the rest of the site it's all arial (the rest of it is just archives and lists), but for these particular pages I wanted people to take time and read. Sometimes I used Georgia for that, but lately I thought verdana has that same elegant presence at 12px/17px. Of course this site is all pleasantly readable as well and the font is "tiny" - by the way, what HAVE they used here for body text (webdeveloper can't get to the bottom of it)? Anyone know?

Thanks for the answer. There

texpad — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:04:15 +0000

Thanks for the answer. There is nothing to link to (it's all on my C drive). But I think I solved it anyway - the problem only occurred on one particular type of page where I wanted to use verdana, large font (the rest was arial). The corporate stylesheet was leaking in all over the place (in P, UL, LI, A, etc). So I created a specific div for those pages:
div#special_page
and treated it like this:
div#special_page p, div#special_page a
{
font-family: verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 12px;
line-height : 18px;
}
div#special_page ul {
list-style : none;
font-family: verdana, arial, geneva, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 12px;
line-height : 18px;
}
div#special_page p.abstract {
font-family:georgia,"times new roman", times, serif;
font-size : 15px;
line-height : 18px;
font-weight:bold;
}
..which immunized it from the corporate stylesheet. Even in Ie6.

No sure if that's standard procedure.

Thanks again for your interest. Much check back here again, like the site design.

That should be the default,

Megan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:48:21 +0000

That should be the default, and that's what they should have done in the corporate stylesheet. There should be no reason to repeat the font-family for the a tag when it's already defined in the body.

Can you post a URL so we can see what's happening with the text sizing? Sounds like something weird is going on there.

Otherwise, yes, you will probably have to create your own definitions for links if you want them to appear in different fonts. Although - and I didn't mean to pick on your design or anything - probably best not to use arial and verdana in the same design