Posted by ironcorona on 05/06/06 16:44

Albert Wiersch wrote:
> "arbpen" <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1146866274.901648.238780@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
>> I'm sure this has been discussed here many times. Best to offer a list
>> of fonts with a generic font as fallback (font-family:arial, helvitca,
>> sans-serif), or don't supply a font at all and let the user's brower
>> decide.
>
> Yes, I'm aware of that... but my question is about "web-safe" fonts. I'd
> like to know which specific fonts are considered "safe" to use (will work
> for 90% or more of visitors). I listed some and wanted to know if I missed
> any or included any that might not be "safe". Here's the list I have right
> now:
>
> arial, arial black, arial narrow, comic sans, comic sans serif, courier,
> courier new, cursive, fantasy, georgia, helvetica, impact, monospace,
> sans-serif, serif, symbol, times, times new roman, trebuchet, verdana

As far as I can remember times new roman and trebuchet aren't default
fonts for linux boxes. Possibly verdana too. Which would make them
non-web safe.

I won't swear to this (I could easily be wrong).

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ironcorona

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