Once in a great while a free font will come along that truly is great where it looks perfect large or small and is more readable.
It is rare when this happens because in all honesty, most fonts are terrible in the respect they only look good under very specific conditions. When you come across one that looks good no matter what the setup, that’s a keeper.
A font which is freely available – even for Windows – is called Ubuntu. It is available at font.ubuntu.com.
The link to specifically download the entire font family for Windows is: http://font.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu-font-family-0.71.2.zip
If that changes for whatever reason, the latest version will be at font.ubuntu.com.
This is an entire font family which is not one but eight fonts; the reason for this is for a guaranteed proper look no matter where you use the font.
What makes the Ubuntu font so great is that whether large, small, on black or on white it always looks good. And even though it’s a screen font, it looks fantastic when printed as well.
A few quick examples with ClearType enabled in Windows:
The Ubuntu font is great for just about everything. Windows menus, icon text, browser default font, you name it, Ubuntu can definitely do it.
Believe me, you will really, really like this font; it was definitely done right the first time.
Want to test the font before downloading?
No problem. Go here:
http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Ubuntu&subset=latin
..and click the "Launch in font previewer" button. You can type in any text you want, specify any size you want, specify bold/italic/underline and run the font through its paces before downloading.
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