Your favourite body fonts?

[Xenonsoft]

What are your favourite body fonts (and sizes?)

Curious, just choosing which font to go for on a site I'm working on.

Arial is still up there for me, albeit a rip-off font. Tahoma ticks some boxes too.

[KevJaques]

Well presuming your trying to stick with Web Standards fonts ;)
Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, Tahoma, Lucida Sans unicode - Georgia (sub headings within body)

minimum of 0.8em for main fonts, +size for headers -size for smaller non essentials

[Xenonsoft]

Cheers Kev

I'm a big fan of Georgia too, using it in a current project for the headers and even logo.

[salvador]

Hey Fred

I presonally love Lucida Grande and Myriad Pro - substitued by Lucida Sans unicode as being a standard font.

~Peace~

[Xenonsoft]

Cheers Salvs. Just noticed Lucida grande myself, it isn't bad.

[30two]

<--- another vote for Georgia. Although if you're going really small, then Arial/Verdana are as good as any.

[Xenonsoft]

I echo your exact thoughts 30two, Georgia isn't perfect for going small, but beautiful for medium to large.

[andyd8]

Oooooooooh Helvetica Neue, Lubalin Graph, Gotham and Garamond (for the hoity toity stuff)

[yogavenger]

You could always do font replacement and use non web-safe fonts. Then the sky's the limit. Although this is best used in moderation as it can make screen rendering a pig. And then there is licensing for the font…

Still, at least it gives the option of taking non web-safe fonts to the screen.

[yogavenger]

I like most web safe fonts for use in some way or another but one of my top choices is Lucida Grande / Lucida Sans. It's what I use on my own blog.