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Browser_Safe_Fonts
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Browser "Safe" Fonts By Shruti Gupta
Fonts make a big difference to the look and experience of the
website. Usage of fonts requires sense of aesthetics and
discretion. We have the liberty to use any font we want in an
image but when we specify the fonts for the text on a web page,
we need to ensure that we use only 'browser safe" fonts.
Browsers support TrueType fonts and all operating systems come
with sets of standard TrueType fonts that have been
preinstalled. These preinstalled TrueType fonts are what we can
say are "browser safe" fonts.
My recommendation is to specify at least three fonts from the
following list in the stylesheet. Out of the three fonts
specified, make sure that at least one of them is available in
Macintosh and one for Windows. Also, please remember that
multi-word font names should be in quotes (example "Times New
Roman").
So, here is a list of fonts that are preinstalled in Windows and
Macintosh computers as they come out of the box.
Windows OS •Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Arial Black
•Comic Sans (Bold) •Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
•Franklin Gothic Medium (Italic) – as of Windows XP •Georgia
(Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Impact •Lucida Console •Lucida Sans
Unicode •Marlett •MS Sans Serif – as of Windows XP •Palatino
Linotype (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Symbol •Tahoma (Bold)
•Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Trebuchet (Bold,
Italic, Bold Italic) •Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
•Webdings
Mac OS •American Typewriter (Bold) •Andale Mono – Only installed
in OS X if Classic is installed •Apple Chancery •Apple Symbols
•Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Arial Black •Arial Narrow
(Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Arial Rounded MT Bold •Baskerville
(Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Big Caslon •Brush Script MT
•Capitals - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
•Charcoal - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
•Chicago - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
•Cochin (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Comic Sans MS (Bold)
•Copperplate (Bold) •Courier (Bold, Oblique, Bold Oblique) -
Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed •Courier New
(Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Didot (Bold, Italic) •Futura
(Sans-serif) •Gadget - Only installed in OS X if Classic is
installed •Geneva •Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Gill
Sans (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Helvetica (Bold, Oblique, Bold
Oblique) •Helvetica Neue (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Herculanum
•Hoefler Text (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Impact •Marker Felt
•Monaco •New York - Only installed in OS X if Classic is
installed •Optima (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Palatino (Bold,
Italic, Bold Italic) - Only installed in OS X if Classic is
installed •Papyrus •Sand - Only installed in OS X if Classic is
installed •Skia •Symbol •Techno - Only installed in OS X if
Classic is installed •Textile - Only installed in OS X if
Classic is installed •Times (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Times
New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Trebuchet (Bold, Italic,
Bold Italic) •Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) •Webdings -
Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed •Zapf Dingbats
•Zapfino
About the author:
Shruti Gupta works for Ecommerce Partners.net
(http://www.ecommercepartners.net) - website design company
based in New York. Her life revolves around developing search
engine friendly websites. Email:info@ecommercepartners.net
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