Common Fonts And When To Use Them

There are some descriptions of good fonts and when to use them over at Thinking With Type. Here are some of them which I found on my Windows XP computer:

Elegant and easy to read font: Baskerville


For children's books: Century Expanded


For headlines: Franklin Gothic


For on-screen reading: Georgia


Popular in the UK: Gill Sans


Elegance: Garamond


Another for on-screen reading: Verdana