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Home > Webmasters > Default System Fonts

A Guide to Fonts for Webmasters


CSS: Font Family {font-family}

In the below example the family name is "Arial" and the generic family name is "sans-serif": 
body { font-family: Arial, sans-serif }
Here is a list of all generic family names you can use after the specific family name:
- serif (e.g. Times)
- sans-serif (e.g. Arial)
- cursive (e.g. Zapf-Chancery)
- fantasy (e.g. Western)
- monospace (e.g. Courier)

Default System (Standard) Fonts

Below in an outline of Windows and Macintosh default fonts. As a web designer, you have to choose a font that every user has installed without any doubt, so we have put together a list of all fonts which match that description.
Note that all common fonts (Available on Windows, as well as Macintosh) are highlighted in blue.
WindowsMacintosh
Andale Mono
(formerly Monotype.com)
Arial
Book Antiqua
Calisto MT
Century Gothic
Comic Sans MS
Copperplate Gothic Bold
Copperplate Gothic Light
Courier
Courier New
Fixedsys
Georgia
Impact
Lucida Handwriting Italic
Lucida Sans Italic
Lucida Sans Unicode
Lucida Console
Marlett
Matisse ITC
Modern
MS Serif
MS Sans Serif
News Gothic MT
OCR A Extended
Small Fonts
Symbol
System
Tempus Sans ITC
Times New Roman
Verdana
Terminal
Webdings
Westminster
Wingdings 		AmericanTypewriter
Andale Mono
Apple Chancery
Apple Symbols
Arial
Baskerville
BigCaslon
Brush Script
Chalkboard
Charcoal
Cochin
Comic Sans MS
Copperplate
Courier
Courier New
Didot
Futura
Gadget
Georgia
Geneva
Gill Sans
Helvetica
Helvetica Neue
Herculanum
Hoefler Text
Impact
Marker Felt
Optima
Papyrus
Skia
Symbol
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Webdings
Zapf Dingbats
Zapfino

Reference Websites:
List of Default Fonts Windows 98 - Microsoft.com
Mac OS Font lists - Apple.com
Core fonts for the Web - Microsoft.com
Mac OS Fonts - Microsoft.com


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