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Originally Posted by cerement
Then there's always the classics of Myriad Web and Minion Web from Adobe, designed for viewing on screen, paired serif and sans-serif.
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Another vote here for Minion Web and Myriad Web... I think they look great.
I'm surprised at the amount of love for Droid Serif and Constantia though.
I find that Droid is clear for short pieces of text, but the letters are squared off a bit instead of being more rounded rounded and there is too much resemblance between letters. This means that for large blocks of text, you get almost a graph paper effect. Also the x-height is quite high, and that means you need to space out the lines more than I like.
I tried Constantia for a few months as an improvement over the stock ADE font (which I find a bit condensed for my taste). After a while I started finding that the letter forms are a bit "spiky" for my taste. I think because the serifs are more prominent and sharper.
I recommend trying out the Adobe pair of fonts (Minion and Myriad are serif and sans, and Web is the computer-display version of the fonts). They are installed with Adobe Reader (look inside the Adobe Reader program folder), but beware that they don't display that well on Windows because they didn't seem to hand-tune to force fit the letters into a pixel grid the way many Windows fonts do...