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It is a common knowledge that during website development one should use only certain (standard, system) fonts to prevent incorrect page display. In this article we present the list of standard Windows fonts and their Mac analogs. If these fonts are used during website development visitors of the site will have no problem with text display.
Windows/Mac/Family
| Normal |
Bold |
| Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif |
Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif |
| Arial Black, Arial Black, Gadget, sans-serif |
Arial Black, Arial Black, Gadget, sans-serif |
| Comic Sans MS, Comic Sans MS5, cursive |
Comic Sans MS, Comic Sans MS5, cursive |
| Courier New, Courier New, Courier6, monospace |
Courier New, Courier New, Courier6, monospace |
| Georgia1, Georgia, serif |
Georgia1, Georgia, serif |
| Impact, Impact5, Charcoal6, sans-serif |
Impact, Impact5, Charcoal6, sans-serif |
| Lucida Console, Monaco5, monospace |
Lucida Console, Monaco5, monospace |
| Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif |
Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif |
| Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua3, Palatino6, serif |
Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua3, Palatino6, serif |
| Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif |
Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif |
| Times New Roman, Times, serif |
Times New Roman, Times, serif |
| Trebuchet MS1, Helvetica, sans-serif |
Trebuchet MS1, Helvetica, sans-serif |
| Verdana, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif |
Verdana, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif |
| Symbol, Symbol (Symbol2, Symbol2) |
Symbol, Symbol (Symbol2, Symbol2) |
| Webdings, Webdings (Webdings2, Webdings2) |
Webdings, Webdings (Webdings2, Webdings2) |
| Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats (Wingdings2, Zapf Dingbats2) |
Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats (Wingdings2, Zapf Dingbats2) |
| MS Sans Serif4, Geneva, sans-serif |
MS Sans Serif4, Geneva, sans-serif |
| MS Serif4, New York6, serif |
MS Serif4, New York6, serif |
1 Georgia and Trebuchet MS are supplied with Windows 2000/XP and are included into fonts assembly for IE (and some other software installations developed by Microsoft).
2Symbolic fonts are displayed correctly only in Internet Explorer, in other browsers substitutions are used (though Symbol font works in Opera, and Webdings font works in Safari).
3Book Antiqua font is practically identical to Palatino and Palatino Linotype which are included into Windows 2000/XP. Book Antiqua font was used in Windows 98.
4These fonts are not True Type fonts but bit fonts. That is why during increase of font size its quality becomes worse (standard sizes of such fonts are: 8, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 24 dots, resolution – 96 dots per inch).
5These fonts work in Safari but only if you use normal style of display. Comic Sans MS may be displayed as bold but not as italic. Other Mac browsers will emulate display styles.
6Fonts are present in Mac OS X only.
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