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Verdana is my fucking jam. Good spacing and very legible at different font sizes. My only two gripes: Lower case "l" (L) being a straight line and the number 0 has no cross through it. Not major though, cause they're still pretty distinct from similar characters.
Eh, just a cheap Helvetica clone.
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I didn't say it was a well made cheap Helvetica clone. 🤷♂️
verdana is great for small sizes on screen. it was designed specifically for that purpose so it would look good with pixellation. it's probably the most successfully designed Microsoft font to date. if you want to type anything in like 5-6pt font verdana is a great choice. but that also makes it bulky and inelegant at larger font sizes.
if you want a sans serif default ms font to use in larger sizes the segoe font family is pretty good.
The biggest factor for me with fonts is readability (I have my notepad++ default to verdana at 16pt font on a 1080p monitor which is my ideal). It's probably worth mentioning that my eyesight isn't great and I think I have some kind of brain related trouble with print.
Segoe is okay, but the font is really thin and the spacing is too narrow for me.
yeah I said for big sizes. 16 is more mid, and not perfect for segoe's thin lines. i think verdana is still a bit too bulky for 16 but for any kind of vision impairment it should be great. you might want to try trebuchet. another low contrast default ms font but it's a bit more humanist and pleasing to look at in those sizes.