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5timuli is right on. Verdana is built for small type in a low-res situation - the screen. It's clunky, because clunky works for that medium. Every time I see it in print, it looks amateur.
He's also right about the design characteristics of display typefaces. Other things that are specific to type made for large settings:
- Higher contrast. This means thinner thins and thicker thicks.
- Longer ascenders/descenders and lower x-height. (Though this is not try across the board.)
- More exaggerated curves, serifs. Whatever forms are specific to that typeface are exaggerated in the Display weights.
Read more at Adobe's excellent page on Opticals:
http://studio.adobe.com/us/type/…