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This is Verdana, size 1. It is a sans-serif font for screen display. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

This is Georgia, size 1. It is a serif font for screen display. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.


This is Arial, size 1. It is a sans-serif font for print. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

This is Times New Roman, size 1. It is a serif font for print. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.


Verdana: Looking at those examples, I think Verdana is the easiest to read on a screen at that small size. Georgia is better than Times New Roman, but because of the serifs, the letters are squeezed more than they are without serifs.

Georgia: At a slightly larger size (2), Verdana and Georgia are both easily readable on screen. Personally, I prefer sans-serifs, and use Verdana almost exclusively on any web stuff I do.

Tahoma: Where I work, they're introducing Microsoft SharePoint for workflow management and communications, and I'm in charge of customizing the interface to our corporate standards (pain in the ass, screw you MS), and out of the box, SharePoint pretty much uses Tahoma everywhere. Personally, I prefer Verdana.