Browser Safe Fonts For All Operating System
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Recently, As I have been designing one of the most compatible and customizable theme, I have been looking into fonts and styling as I wanted this theme to be the best one. I came across some very important tool which I will share later on when I put it into use on a live website, but I also came across this resource.
I know people want to use other fonts that looks even better. Below I made a list of fonts that are safe for all browsers on all operating systems. Just in case if you guys ever need it.
| Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif |
| Arial Black, Arial Black, Gadget, sans-serif |
| Comic Sans MS, Comic Sans MS, cursive |
| Courier New, Courier New, Courier, monospace |
| Georgia, Georgia, serif |
| Impact, Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif |
| Lucida Console, Monaco, monospace |
| Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif |
| Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif |
| Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif |
| Times New Roman, Times, serif |
| Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif |
| Verdana, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif |
| Symbol, Symbol (Symbol, Symbol) |
| Webdings, Webdings (Webdings, Webdings) |
| Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats (Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats) |
| MS Sans Serif, Geneva, sans-serif |
| MS Serif, New York, serif |
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It uses flash and loads your font from a URL.
Yes Wesley that is the one that I will write about when I have my own live example.
Great solution if you also made some coding for users without flash.
thanks for the list..
Will be helpful for my future designing projects.
Happy New Year.
Thank you. This is very useful information.
Let me know when you are done customizing the design of your new wordpress theme. I would like to take a look at it and give you some feedback on it.
I would love to check out your new theme too. Hope to get some good inspiration there.
Ben
It looks clean and neat now. Hope you could add the top commentators widget too.
I have already commented on this post Syed, so, I shall start off the new year with a big wish for a happy new year and best wishes for a peaceful and prosperous one for you.
This is a handy little list to have. Sometimes we might want to use an elaborate or unusual font to make a point but we don’t realize many of our readers won’t see it like that.
I think it is time this list to be widen by w3, because it is very old and short. Something universal has to be made.
thanks for the list, I always have a hell of a time working with IE. Firefox and Safari are a breeze, but IE gives me headaches.
Although those are pretty less, but I usually prefer making an image for a font that is not normally in computers, else I use verdana or Georgia! They look pretty formal for normal text.