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Browser Safe Fonts

Browsers typically let users specify fonts to be used when pages do not specify fonts using either CSS or <font>. For example, Internet Explorer 7 enables users to specify two fonts, a web page font, used for proportional text, and a plain text font, used for monospace text. These fonts may be different from the CSS generic fonts (discussed below). For example, if the user selects Arial (a sans-serif font) as the default proportional font, this does not necessarily make Arial the CSS generic sans-serif font.

Generic Fonts

There are five generic families of fonts:

• serif
• sans-serif
• cursive
• fantasy
• monospace

The defaults for these vary with the platform, the browser, the fonts available, and the user configuration. Some browsers let users configure the defaults. This gives the user more control over how pages are rendered if the user can pick their preferred generic fonts. But some browsers like Internet Explorer, don't let their users pick what they want, and these browsers may pick fonts that are ugly, or unreadable.

We suggest specific fonts when designing pages. This gives you more control over the appearance of pages, and can result in pages that are more attractive and easier to read.

TIP: Always suggest a list of similar fonts — arial, helvetica, sans-serif — to ensure a more consistent result. For example, if Arial is installed, it is used; otherwise, if Helvetica is installed, it is used; otherwise the generic sans-serif font is used.

Common Fonts

The red checkmarks indicate very common fonts; yellow checkmarks indicate Microsoft Core Web Fonts which are somewhat less common for some operating systems; grey checkmarks indicate Vista fonts which may be installed in some older versions of Windows.

Generic Family	Font Name	Windows 2000/XP	Windows Vista	Mac OS X	Linux Unix
serif	Cambria
	Constantina
	Georgia
	Palatino Linotype
	Times New Roman
	Times
sans-serif	Arial
	Arial Black
	Arial Narrow
	Calibri
	Candara
	Corbel
	Helvetica
	Impact
	Tahoma
	Trebuchet MS
	Verdana
cursive	Comic Sans MS
fantasy
monospace	Andale Mono
	Consolas
	Courier
	Courier New
	Lucida Console

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