The default font for POTN

I've always set Firefox fonts to use Times New Roman for all sites, rather than go with the site's default font.

But now I have a new monitor and graphics card and the fonts are all hard to read in some way or other. Very irritating.

So I set Firefox to allow pages to use their own fonts and it turns out that POTN's is the best I've seen so far.

I think it's time to go looking for fonts that work well with this graphics card.

Could one of the gods of POTN tell me the name of this font? It'll be a good starting point, and I think I'd like to use it in my Windows setup also.

Anyone recommend a good site for font downloads?

Thanks...

-js

Looking at the HTML code of a generated page, I see:

You can do this yourself for any web page anywhere. Choose "View | Page Source". Since POTN uses Cascading Style Sheets, find the tag "body" and look for the font line similar to the one quoted above.

You might not see that on hand-coded pages, in which case the page will use whatever your browser's default font is, as set in Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts.

Thanks for the help, Jon.

After a bit of experimentation I see that this page uses verdana - not from the HTML, but by choosing that and comparing with my local font.

I'd still like to find a decent looking Times New Roman, but that's obviously an issue with my graphics card rather than the font itself. Looked fine with the old card.

But I can live with this verdana quite easily...

-js

Huh. Looking at the HTML source now I see "trebuchet MS" also. That's a new one to me.

Just tried it - not bad, but harder to read than verdana.

I'll continue to play...

-js

If you use Firefox 4, disable its hardware acceleration and fonts will look ok again. With new hardware accelerated rendering FF4 renders fonts really bad depending on graphics cars and driver.

Pekka wrote in post #12254605
If you use Firefox 4, disable its hardware acceleration and fonts will look ok again. With new hardware accelerated rendering FF4 renders fonts really bad depending on graphics cars and driver.

Hi, Pekka - I'm using 3.6.16. I don't see hardware acceleration settings anywhere - so it's just FF4?

-js