Web Safe Fonts

Saturday, December 30, 2006

When designing web pages, it can be difficult to know which fonts are safe to use - fonts are not attached to a webpage - they have to reside on your visitor's computer and this is where the problem lies.

You might have a fantastic collection of different typefaces you want to use, but if your website visitor doesn't have that particular one, your website will look completely different as their web browser will resort to a default.

There are a few ways to overcome this - firstly specify a font-family in the stylesheet and check your design using these variants e.g.

font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif

Or you can use a site such as font tester which lists web-safe and other fonts. Their list of web-safe fonts are:

Arial
Arial Black
Bookman Old Style
Comic Sans MS
Courier
Courier New
Garamond
Georgia
Impact
Lucida Console
Lucida Sans Unicode
MS Serif
MS Sans Serif
Palatino Linotype
Symbol
Tahoma
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Webdings
Wingdings

It is good practice though to specify a few variations through the font-family declaration, as nothing is guaranteed.

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