Best font family to use for web?

[Jahova]

Yeah, what's the best font family1 to use on the web for my layouts? Thanks.

1 As in font family I mean like "font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;" or whatever you use. Understand?

[MattFr]

You use the one that suits your design. There is no "best".

[Jahova]

I'm looking for others' opinions. What is mostly used, etc.

[MattFr]

I use every combination.

[Source]

There are no 'common' font-families. Use fonts that are widely available where possible, I'm sure there's a list on the net somewhere.

That however isn't a huge issue. CSS3 allows you to set custom font-files to be used (give it a google search) and solutions such as http://typekit.com/ are also great. I believe Google has a solution like TypeKit - but it is more limited and the fonts aren't that ground-breaking.

[Apolva]

If you don't use CSS3 to include the font, you need to use web-safe fonts (fonts which exist on all/most machines: http://www.fonttester.com/help/list_of_web_safe_fonts.html)

I almost always use arial and fall back to sans-serif.
font-family:arial,sans-serif;

[Jahova]

Ah, I see. Thanks all.

[Blob]

I'm sure you can use font-face can't you? And that works in IE?

[AlexOC]

arial, verdana

i always use that

[Irrorate]

I use Baskerville sometimes, other times I use Palatino Linotype, other times I stick to Arial/Times New Roman.

Now and again I might use Segoe UI