web design (aesthetics) question
The following is a lot of words over a very small question.
I'm finally getting a webpage together, what with fanfiction.net being about to kick all my FPS off, and then the lovely lobelia321 giving me an encouraging kick in the tail too.
What do people think about overriding the default font? I've sometimes heard it said that for long slabs of text (eg fics), it's obnoxious to specify the typeface, because people should be able to read long slabs in their preferred font.
Now, it's a monochrome design: all text and design/navigation elements are black, on a kinda milk-coffee background. My banner-style header contains Times New Roman black type - I am specifying the font there for aesthetic reasons.
I didn't think I cared what the body of the text on the page looked like, until I saw on this current lab terminal how *utterly stupid* it looks when the browser turns the body text to some big, fat, round, dorky sans-serif font (probably Ariel). It just looks *dumb*, especially because it's under the serif header. Knobworthy,* as an ex used to say.
D'you reckon I can get away with forcing the font into serif?
* "Knob" isn't a verb, so far as I know, so: no, I don't understand how this terms works either. But it's very expressive, no?
I'm finally getting a webpage together, what with fanfiction.net being about to kick all my FPS off, and then the lovely lobelia321 giving me an encouraging kick in the tail too.
What do people think about overriding the default font? I've sometimes heard it said that for long slabs of text (eg fics), it's obnoxious to specify the typeface, because people should be able to read long slabs in their preferred font.
Now, it's a monochrome design: all text and design/navigation elements are black, on a kinda milk-coffee background. My banner-style header contains Times New Roman black type - I am specifying the font there for aesthetic reasons.
I didn't think I cared what the body of the text on the page looked like, until I saw on this current lab terminal how *utterly stupid* it looks when the browser turns the body text to some big, fat, round, dorky sans-serif font (probably Ariel). It just looks *dumb*, especially because it's under the serif header. Knobworthy,* as an ex used to say.
D'you reckon I can get away with forcing the font into serif?
* "Knob" isn't a verb, so far as I know, so: no, I don't understand how this terms works either. But it's very expressive, no?