Best font selection for a menu?

I have a menu displayed on the left pane of my site. This menu has a title,
then menu items and sometimes a subtitle that groups the menu items.

My question is what collection of font selections would you recommend for
this? something not too small but not too big yet fairly standard.

Cheers
Emilio

On 20 Sep, 11:55, ".... www.FocusOnPanama.com ...."
<fights... (AT) mailbox (DOT) now> wrote:

I have a menu displayed on the left pane of my site. This menu has a title,
then menu items and sometimes a subtitle that groups the menu items.

My question is what collection of font selections would you recommend for
this? something not too small but not too big yet fairly standard.

font: 100% sans-serif

I might set color for a strong contrast with its background-color too
(you might have a menu on a coloured block(s).

It's "on the left", so I assume that means it's a vertical list of
items. Such a menu is usually far shorter than the page body and can
easily groww longer. For that reason there's no point in reducing font
size.

If it were a horizontal menu as an inline list, I might reduce the
font-size to 80%, but no further.

"Andy Dingley" <dingbat (AT) codesmiths (DOT) com> wrote

On 20 Sep, 11:55, ".... www.FocusOnPanama.com ...."
fights... (AT) mailbox (DOT) now> wrote:
I have a menu displayed on the left pane of my site. This menu has a
title,
then menu items and sometimes a subtitle that groups the menu items.

My question is what collection of font selections would you recommend for
this? something not too small but not too big yet fairly standard.

font: 100% sans-serif

What about normal body text? I had some fonts selected but apparently some
people here had some objections. I modified it and now it only shows
hideously large fonts that look like a primary school book

For the body I have now (not satisfied with it) Times, "Trebuchet MS",
Georgia, "Times New Roman",Verdana,Sans-Serif;

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> writes:

.... www.FocusOnPanama.com .... wrote:
For the body I have now (not satisfied with it) Times, "Trebuchet MS",
Georgia, "Times New Roman",Verdana,Sans-Serif;

Why would you be mixing serif and sans-serif fonts?

Sans-Serif should be lower case. Verdana should disappear.

Unfortunately there are no pseudo-classes for particular fonts:

body
{ background-color: white
}

body:verdana
{ color: white
}

:-)
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Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn (AT) cl (DOT) cam.ac.uk

In article <46f26505$0$281$dbd4d001 (AT) news (DOT) wanadoo.nl>, www.FocusOnPanama.com writes:

"Andy Dingley" <dingbat (AT) codesmiths (DOT) com> wrote

font: 100% sans-serif

What about normal body text? I had some fonts selected but apparently some
people here had some objections. I modified it and now it only shows
hideously large fonts that look like a primary school book

That is a problem with the configuration of your PC or workstation. On
my PC, 100% fonts have upper-case letters approximately 1/8" high, which
is as small as I can comfortably read. If your browsing situation has
100% fonts too big for your tastes, fix *your* browsing situation; don't
try to break mine.

--
Michael F. Stemper
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Visualize whirled peas!

Scripsit Gregor Kofler:

.... www.FocusOnPanama.com .... meinte:

For the body I have now (not satisfied with it) Times, "Trebuchet
MS", Georgia, "Times New Roman",Verdana,Sans-Serif;

What's that gonna be? Throw in all fonts you ever heard of?

It surely looks like that. I bet the author didn't actually check the page
on all of those fonts.

Your approach ends for many with
Sans-Serif, since all other alternatives are restricted to one or the
other OS.

Hardly. It would be a rare accident if none of the specific fonts existed in
a user's system.

Win-Owner will get Times New Roman (serif),

Hardly. I would be surprised if I found a Windows system that lacks both
Trebuchet MS and Georgia.

other blokes might see Sans-Serif (sans).

Rarely.

It's a bad list, but for the reason that many of the specific fonts _are_
found on users' computers and the fonts are too different from each other.
For example, they would require rather different line-height values.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote

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What about normal body text? I had some fonts selected but apparently

Sans-Serif should be lower case. Verdana should disappear.

I thought Verdana was the result of great effort to produce an

extraordinarily readable font for the web. I gather from discussions that
its spacing or height is so different from other fonts that it should never
be used to design pages with, but is it really so bad that it should
"disappear"?

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

The problem is that authors who choose Verdana look at their own
monitors, see that it is large, and set a ridiculously small font
*size*. Like: font-size: 10px or 75%... Then, for visitors without
Verdana, they get the next fall-back font and it looks like flyspecks.

That sounds like Mac users. Is it a Mac font?


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On 20 Sep, 13:08, ".... www.FocusOnPanama.com ...."
<fights... (AT) mailbox (DOT) now> wrote:

font: 100% sans-serif

What about normal body text?

100% (0r 80%, if you're IE - posts passim)

For the body I have now (not satisfied with it) Times, "Trebuchet MS",
Georgia, "Times New Roman",Verdana,Sans-Serif;

That's ridiculous.

"Trebuchet MS", Sans-Serif;
has some rationale behind it, but not the rest.

Why would you specify a serif Times Roman or Georgia with a sans-serif
fallback?

Why specify Times and Times New Roman together? The synonym mechanisms
will merge those.

Verdana has its own problems.


The function of the font list is to specify _one_ font, from a list of
candidates. Once one is matched, that's an end of it. You don't get
extra "designer points" for how many cool fonts you can name on your
way there! There's no style-osmosis between names listed together - at
the end of the day, it's just one of them that makes it through.


If you want something better than sans-serif, then specify a line of
suitable candidates, including your own visual aesthetic favourites
and favoured choices from each major platform (Windows, Mac, favourite
Unix desktops). Use the generic name as a fallback.

But don't just scatter-gun a random lists of fonts that you once heard
mentioned.

In article <slrnff6fgt.pk.no.spam (AT) thurston (DOT) blinkynet.net>,
Blinky the Shark <no.spam (AT) box (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

The problem is that authors who choose Verdana look at their own
monitors, see that it is large, and set a ridiculously small font
*size*. Like: font-size: 10px or 75%... Then, for visitors without
Verdana, they get the next fall-back font and it looks like flyspecks.

That sounds like Mac users. Is it a Mac font?

No, it's a Microsoft concoction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdana