Guide and resources for choosing proper fonts for your web documents

A one minute guide to deciding fonts for web documents and resources.

Resources

• Informative article on web safe fonts (fonts which look good on the web).
• The definitive guide on fonts is by w3.org.
• You can also refer to Microsoft Typography fonts section.

If you do not have time to read the above documents here is a one minute guide.

Choose Verdana, Sans-Serif for normal text. Choose Georgia, Serif for big headlines (h1, h2 tags). This should give you a presentable document which looks professional and goes easy on the eye.
If you want to fine tune it, go ahead and read the documents above.