{"id":18128,"date":"2016-10-04T17:40:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T17:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=18128"},"modified":"2016-10-04T17:40:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T17:40:41","slug":"web-design-fonts-one-sans-serif-verdana-one-serif-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/web-design-fonts-one-sans-serif-verdana-one-serif-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Web design: fonts: one sans-serif (Verdana), one serif (Georgia)"},"content":{"rendered":"

To help choose fonts for web design, the tutor mentions two appealing ones: Verdana and Georgia.<\/h1>\n

People tend to prefer sans-serif fonts. Yet, for reading dense, small text, a serif font might be advantageous.<\/p>\n

Choosing the font(s) for a web page is often challenging. However, here’s a helpful hint: the Verdana and Georgia fonts were developed by Microsoft specifically for web readability. First, here’s Verdana font:<\/p>\n

\"verdana<\/p>\n

Next, a sample of Georgia font:<\/p>\n

\"georgia<\/p>\n

Source:<\/p>\n

Austin, Brian. Web Page Design in easy steps<\/u>. Southam: Computer Step, 2003.<\/p>\n

wordfind.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To help choose fonts for web design, the tutor mentions two appealing ones: Verdana and Georgia. People tend to prefer sans-serif fonts. Yet, for reading dense, small text, a serif font might be advantageous. Choosing the font(s) for a web …<\/p>\n

Web design: fonts: one sans-serif (Verdana), one serif (Georgia)<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[837],"tags":[1940,1934,1939,1935,1936,1937,1938],"class_list":["post-18128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-design","tag-choosing-font","tag-font-for-web-design","tag-font-for-web-page","tag-georgia-font","tag-verdana-font","tag-when-sans-serif-is-better","tag-when-serif-is-better"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18128"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18140,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18128\/revisions\/18140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}