What should be the font on the site?

Question

Design

I want to know which fonts to use on the site from the standard set: Ubuntu, Arial, Open Sans, Verdana or Helvetica? And in general, what would you advise to know about fonts?

Answer 1

If you are seriously asking, then as a review I can recommend Kirsanov's book "Web Design", as an excellent review, not only on fonts, but on the principle of web design. Don't be embarrassed that the book is old.
Further, depending on whether you are going to seriously engage in typography, or if you have enough basic knowledge. I'm currently reading Typography. Font, layout, design” by James Felici, this is already a real textbook.
The question about fonts for a site is very broad, it can be answered correctly with some degree of probability only within the framework of one template. Somewhere you will need chopped, somewhere serif, somewhere you must use decorative fonts, and somewhere they will look very strange.
Font, layout - this is the most inconspicuous part of the design, which actually requires a lot of attention. Excluding display and decorative typefaces, the goal of typography is precisely to be invisible to the reader.

Answer 2

You can also use non-standard ones, why not.

Answer 3

any, the main thing is that it was not strained to read.

Answer 4

There is a wonderful resource - Google Fonts.
Don't forget to select Cyrillic in the filter.

Answer 5

Arial or Open Sans - strain less than others.

Answer 6

Everything you need to know about typefaces was written by Robert Bringhurst in Fundamentals of Style in Typography. Truth is boring in places.
Well, or read the immortal Leadership. There is also a lot on this topic.

Answer 7

Here, read it in English, but it's useful ...

Answer 8

The main thing is readable with convenience. Further, it depends on your design with serifs or without. And of course, fonts must be safe.

Answer 9

Mark , try installing the WhatFont Chrome add-on. In a number of cases, the problem with identifying fonts will be exhausted. And if we take into account the fact that less and less text is typeset with pictures, there will be more and more such cases :-)