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Jukka K. Korpela  
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 More options Sep 9 2012, 1:49 pm
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From: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi>
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:49:06 +0300
Local: Sun, Sep 9 2012 1:49 pm
Subject: Re: Verdana
2012-09-09 20:06, Alfred Molon wrote:

> In article <k17hbm$82...@dont-email.me>, Tim W says...
>> What are the problems with Verdana in practice?

> I don't know. My site uses verdana.

Your site http://www.molon.de/ is a good demonstration of the problems
of typical use of Verdana:
1) font set to small, fixed sizes (13px, 10px), obviusly because Verdana
looks bad in common default font sizes
2) too small line height (especially for overly long lines)
3) poor color contrast in light on dark texts (presumably caused by
author's wrong assumptions about Verdana as very readable)
4) paragraphs justified on both sides (though _this_ mistake might be
independent of Verdana).

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


 
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