Web compatable Fonts
September 18th, 2009Fonts that are default system fonts and can be displayed on all systems:
| Windows fonts / Mac fonts / Font family | |
| Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif | |
| Arial Black, Arial Black, Gadget, sans-serif | |
| Comic Sans MS, Comic Sans MS5, cursive | |
| Courier New, Courier New, Courier6, monospace | |
| Georgia1, Georgia, serif | |
| Impact, Impact5, Charcoal6, sans-serif | |
| Lucida Console, Monaco5, monospace | |
| Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif | |
| Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua3, Palatino6, serif | |
| Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif | |
| Times New Roman, Times, serif | |
| Trebuchet MS1, Helvetica, sans-serif | |
| Verdana, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif | |
| Symbol, Symbol (Symbol2, Symbol2) | |
| Webdings, Webdings (Webdings2, Webdings2) | |
| Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats (Wingdings2, Zapf Dingbats2) | |
| MS Sans Serif4, Geneva, sans-serif | |
| MS Serif4, New York6, serif | |
1 Georgia and Trebuchet MS are bundled with Windows 2000/XP and they are also included in the IE font pack (and bundled with other MS applications), so they are quite common in Windows 98 systems.
2 Symbolic fonts are only displayed in Internet Explorer, in other browsers a font substitute is used instead (although the Symbol font does work in Opera and the Webdings works in Safari).
3 Book Antiqua is almost exactly the same font that Palatino Linotype, Palatino Linotype is included in Windows 2000/XP while Book Antiqua was bundled with Windows 98.
4 These fonts are not TrueType fonts but bitmap fonts, so they won’t look well when using some font sizes (they are designed for 8, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 24 point sizes at 96 DPI).