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Calibri/Segoe UI as a web page font


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Are either Calibri (my favourite) or Segoe UI (my second favourite) good fonts to use for a website? If not, why?

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They are both decent but out of the two, I prefer Calibri due to its smoothness and readability (it's also the default font on my blog). Segoe UI is a bit too sharp for my liking.

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The question can't be answer because I need to see how the website looks first. Arial works best with all content websites.

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Calibri seems to be smaller than other mainstream web fonts, so it wouldn't be good to use it in the same font stack.

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Well people are probably more likely to have Segoe installed I presume as it's the default Windows font, rather than Calibri which is provided with Office. Though Segoe or Arial work pretty nicely most of the time.

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Responding to some of the posts in this thread: If you don't mind using CSS3, you can use any of those two fonts even if the user doesn't have them installed on their computer. More information is found here: http://www.css3.info/preview/web-fonts-with-font-face. I've used this technique before, so let me know if you require any help with it :)

If you know all about that and you're just asking which would look better, I always prefer Segoe UI to Calibri, but either would look fine.

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Calibri would be my choice, though you'd need to licence it in order to use it for a website - it's $35 on Fonts.com. In terms of fonts that are widely supported out-of-the-box (i.e. pre-installed on both Windows and Mac) I tend to go for Verdana.

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Other OSs won't have those fonts.

True that, however, you can load the font onto your site so that it works on all OS'.
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Responding to some of the posts in this thread: If you don't mind using CSS3, you can use any of those two fonts even if the user doesn't have them installed on their computer. More information is found here: http://www.css3.info/preview/web-fonts-with-font-face. I've used this technique before, so let me know if you require any help with it :)

If you know all about that and you're just asking which would look better, I always prefer Segoe UI to Calibri, but either would look fine.

no, you can't. neither's licence allows for font-face distribution.

you have to find a free (as in speech) font or one whose licence allows distribution/font-face, plenty of good ones out there.

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Calibri seems to be smaller than other mainstream web fonts, so it wouldn't be good to use it in the same font stack.

Yeah, Calibri has a smaller x-height than other "core web fonts" (0.465 vs. Arial's 0.518, etc.), which is why it's a shame more browsers don't support font-size-adjust (Only Firefox/Gecko does, it's got really good font/text handling)

Best solution is to find a font that allows @font-face linking and use that, with fallback families that match closely in size and design (And realise that since they'll never perfectly match, test your site using each family in the stack to see if stuff breaks.)

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no, you can't. neither's licence allows for font-face distribution.

you have to find a free (as in speech) font or one whose licence allows distribution/font-face, plenty of good ones out there.

Oh, I didn't realise that. Thanks for the correction :)

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