I am working on a new website regarding Google Chrome and I started doing some preliminary thoughts on the design, so I did a search for “font used in Google Chrome” and came upon this great site at chromium.org: http://dev.chromium.org/user-experience/visual-design
Turns out the default font in Chrome is the system font… duh! On XP, that means Tahoma (11pt). I remember working as a graphic artist and being able to recognize fonts and recall their name on sight… a skill which has sadly drifted away. I mean… I know the difference between Arial and Lucinda! But I should have picked up on the Tahoma thing. Admittedly, sometimes the differences between Tahoma and Verdana escape me unless I’m comparing them directly…. no actually Verdana is pretty recognizable on second thought.
(Although none of them look that great at 18pts as shown above. Verdana really shines when its really small, which is actually one of its main advantages).
So on XP, the text in the tabs is Tahoma, and on Vista it is Segoe, and so on for each operating system that will eventually run Google Chrome.
I plan on spending more time looking at the design notes of Chromium and Chrome and we’ll see how in-depth I can submerge myself in the development of Google’s newest (and first!) web browser: Google Chrome!
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