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This question is not "what is the coolest font," but which font works best for reading text of any size on the computer screen. Only fonts pre-installed on a majority of computers - Mac and Windows - should be included in the answers.

If your answer isn't already below, please upload font samples from http://www.identifont.com for the most consistent images.

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36 votes

Verdana

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By Matthew Carter for Microsoft

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23 votes

Georgia

By Matthew Carter for Microsoft

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16 votes

Arial

By Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders for Monotype and Microsoft

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12 votes

Times New Roman

By Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent for "The Times of London" and Monotype

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12 votes

Tahoma

By Matthew Carter for Microsoft

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7 votes

Helvetica

By Max Miedinger for Haas, now owned by Linotype

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6 votes

Courier

By Howard Kettler for IBM

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5 votes

Comic Sans

By Vincent Connare for Microsoft

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4 votes

Geneva

By Susan Kare for Apple

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4 votes

Trebuchet

By Vincent Connare for Microsoft

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3 votes

Lucida Grande/Sans

By Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes for Adobe

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2 votes

Anything sans-serif

Those serif fonts are better for print reading. Sans-serif increases readability online.

But check out this article, it's interesting and promotes sans-serif and serif fonts especially designed for the web: http://www.poynter.org...sp?id=78569

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2 votes

Monaco

By Susan Kare and Kris Holmes for Apple

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1 votes

It sure isn't Wingdings

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1 votes

Prov Architect NDP

by Nate Piekos for Providence Type.

I don't know, I just love it.

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