HTML: Why not to use font-family “Verdana”
October 4th, 2008 by jeremychonehttp://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html
In short, Verdana is much bigger than the other font. Putting the font-size at 85% will resolve this issue, however, if the user does not have Verdana, then its default font will be way too small.