Oh good Verdana put in a word

Verdana is a sans serif font that was specifically designed for the web. For the first time, Verdana was delivered from IE in 1996 and became the leader in web usage worldwide.


Author: Actually the original author was Tom Rickner, but the official author for today is Matthew Carter.
Owner: Microsoft Corp.

Verdana has one giant flaw, it is very wide and therefore practically unsuitable for applications with intensive data density in forms ...

What can you recommend?

Tahoma is a sans serif font that was designed to display UI (compare with Verdana, especially lowercase letters). The birth of the raster Tahoma actually happened in 1994. The popularity came in 2000 when the vector version of the font was used by default in the UI of such operating systems as Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (it replaced MS Sans Serif).

Posted by: same Matthew Carter
Owner: Microsoft Corp.

Tahoma inherited all the virtues of Verdana and eliminated its shortcomings. It's fine!
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By the way, many people forget about another megascript.
Yes, this is Arial:

Arial is a sans serif font that incorporates the latest font tendencies of the 20th century. Arial is industrial and universal: you can use it both in the Web and in print and graphic design.

By Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders
Owner: Agfa Monotype Corp.

Arial is loved for its density, although with small pins it is more a disadvantage than a dignity.

Verdict: Verdana is definitely outdated. Use Verdana 2.0 — Tahoma. Well, the eternal Arial is out of competition. Although the taste and color of a friend is not.

Your own business, what font to use in your applications.

Note: this article expresses only the opinion of the author, which does not claim to complete the coverage of the problem, which is also described with reference to the design of interfaces and only to them. Professionals-type designers should speak and write about fonts, we discuss them as philistines-designers.