# \[Totally OT\] CSS Best Prac. Rails Apps

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 8, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/totally-ot-css-best-prac-rails-apps/57259 "2006-04-08T21:09:26Z")\
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I’ve used Verdana heavily in many of my sites. My graphics designer  
likes it  
and so do my clients. There is a well-reasoned discussion that goes  
something like:

- Verdana is bigger than any other font in default size
- If a user doesn’t have Verdana, what they see may be way smaller than  
designed
- Ergo, don’t use Verdana

What is everyone else doing? 80+% of my site visitors are IE/Win, 8%  
Firefox/Win, the rest primarily Mac/Safari or Mac/Firefox. I get one or  
two  
Linux hits a month and these are the ones primarily affected by the  
discussion.

## Thanks in advance for your opinions on this.

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You should be fine with Verdana, which tends to be more eye-friendly,  
IMHO.

Don’t know if this is helpful, but I recommend this article to  
individuals who have questions about fonts on the web.

[http://www.efuse.com/Design/web\_fonts\_basics.html](http://www.efuse.com/Design/web_fonts_basics.html)

## Dave

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David Andrew T.
http://dathompson.blogspot.com
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**Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/totally-ot-css-best-prac-rails-apps/57259/3 "2006-04-08T22:01:42Z")

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verdana was designed by matthew carter for microsoft, specifically  
for rendering on screen. i think it’s a good font for body type. but  
i think it’s a bit of an awkward font when you use it as a larger  
display type.

-tak.

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/totally-ot-css-best-prac-rails-apps/57259/4 "2006-04-09T02:40:56Z")

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## Thanks. As I said, there is some religious debate regarding use of Verdana because it is larger than correspondingly-sized other fonts. I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t some huge groundswell of “Verdana is evil” going on that I didn’t know about 🙂

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