Setting fonts in browsers

Something about the type on Dagblog’s pages always looked off when I
 viewed them in Internet Explorer. I didn’t give it much 
 priority, though, because I put it down to the browser’s nonstandard behavior.
 The type looked fine in Mozilla, which is what I normally use on the internet.

I also recently came across 
 
 The big font test 
 , carried out by Pixy. In the survey he set out to see how different browsers respond to the selected font, depending on the operating system. The 
 results
 are freely available, by the way. He evaluated the results for different fonts 
 in his article
 Fonts in browsers, part two, which describes in detail how browsers handle different fonts by font family and offers advice
 on how best to set them.

From that very interesting article I learned that it’s a bad idea
 to use the Central European variants of typical Windows fonts, such as “Arial CE” and “Verdana CE.” Somehow I
 remembered that conclusion, and it came to me yesterday when I looked at Dagblog in Internet Explorer.
 Of course I was using the CE variants in the CSS font settings, and I’d even listed them first.
 Once I adjusted the settings using the recommendation for Verdana 1, the difference in type disappeared.