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Websafe Fonts in Website Design
by Linda Lee, askmepc-webdesign



How to use safe fonts in website design

FONTS FOR WEB SITES
If you use a font that isn't installed on the computer of someone reading your Web site, the font will be converted to one that is installed.
To avoid this problem, you should use these TrueType fonts in your Web pages:

Arial (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
Arial Black
Comic Sans MS (including bold)
Courier New (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
Georgia (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
Impact
Symbol
Times New Roman (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
Trebuchet MS (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
Verdana (including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic)
Wingdings
All other fonts may be used embedded into a graphic file to give your page a customized look.

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
* Marlette
* 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

Just remember the rule of thumb:
If you use a font that isn't installed on the computer of someone reading your Web site, the font will be converted to one that is installed. Safe fonts are the True Type fonts listed at the top of this page.

by Linda Lee -

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