Vista and IE7 define page fonts

Vista arrives, oneself also installed the IE7 to feel in advance. ClearType technology does make people bright, especially under a flat panel monitor. But after looking at a period of half pixel and half ClearType form of the combination of fonts, the eyes are really tired.

It suddenly occurred to me that Vista and IE fonts as well as ClearType modes can be customized, but are you ready for the applicability and versatility of your Chinese web site? Here I share some recent experiences with you.

A, we are now in the use of font? (with serif and sans serif font serifvssansserif)

The alphabet system in Western countries is divided into two categories: serif and Sansserif.

Serif is a serif font, which means that there are additional decorations at the beginning and end of the stroke, and that the strokes are of a different thickness. On the contrary, Sansserif does not have these extra decorations, and the strokes are about the same thickness.

< Figure 1>timesnewroman is the most representative of the most commonly used serif font, Arial, Segoeui is a sans serif font.

Comparison of Serif and Sansserif

-serif fonts are easy to identify, it emphasizes the beginning and end of each letter strokes, so the readability is relatively high, sansserif is more eye-catching. In the case of walking text reading, it is suitable for serif font to be used for typesetting, it is easy to read the recognition of line, avoid the reading error between the rows.

-sansserif emphasizes every letter, serif more emphasis on one word.

Use:

Usually the article Nevin, the text, the book chooses the serif font to enhance the legibility, moreover the long time takes the word as the unit reading not to be easy to cause the exertion. Sansserif is more prominent, eye-catching, but long time reading may cause fatigue.

For Chinese, the song body belongs to the serif font, while the blackbody, the young round, the elegant black belongs to the Sansserif font. Similarly, the song-style typesetting of books, newspapers, web pages for a long time more usability, it is much stronger than Sansserif, and bold type of font, we often as a title to use.