Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 10/23/05 23:22

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Neredbojias wrote:

> Many people gripe about Verdana for obscure reasons,

There are people (of which I'm one) who advise against including it in
author stylesheets for body text, for reasons which are clearly stated
(sbpoley's page on the topic states them well, IMHO). If you disagree
with them, you're entirely free to explain why. Murmuring about
"obscure reasons" doesn't seem very honest to me.

> although I like it.

I'm sure Verdana is a fine font for some purposes: feel entirely free
to set it as your browser default if you wish, or even to force it via
your user stylesheet instead of what the author is proposing. The
advice, however, remains: not to propose it for body text in an author
stylesheet.

best

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