So You Want to Blog - Font Choices
If you want your readers to enjoy reading your blog keep the text fonts simple. Nothing bold, nothing scripty, nothing fancy, nothing sans-serif. If someone notices your font choice then it's a bad choice. That is to say, if someone is wondering what kind of font you are using then the font is distracting the reader from understanding what you are saying.
Reading should not be a chore. For example, if a blogger uses any of the following for his text font then I will bet you lunch that he is losing 99% of his potential audience:
As for text color - there is only one correct, proper choice: black type on a white background with black type on a very light grey background for quoted text. There is nothing wrong once in a rare while with different text colors to help differentiate different speakers when necessary. But as in all things in life, don't overdo.
Why black on white? Because that's the easiest to read. White text on a black background, for example, strains the eyes after a short reading. Consider:
Are there websites that have a good readership but who display white text on a black background? Yes, but they do so at the peril of losing many of their older readers.
Keep it simple, easy, light. Fonts should be read not red.
