Does someone have a short, fairly reliable, list of fonts that are likely to be found both on Mac and Windows machines? I suppose I could look at one of our windows machines here, but I am thinking someone of you has already been down this road and will already have a definitive list.
In particular I am looking for a cross-platform font that is a little prettier and more elegant that Arial, for use as a large display font where I am dynamically changing the text from a customProperty and don't want to make all those text displays as images in Photoshop ahead of time (too much work and too much data) In this context we don't have really tight size parameters we have to worry about as we will just give it plenty of room (unlike when making small buttons where the type size differences for the same font across platforms can be a headache.)
Fonts available 'by default' to both MacOS 10.2 and Windows Me - other cross-platform users, please, correct me if I'm wrong:
Arial:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Arial Black:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Comic Sans MS:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Century Gothic:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Copperplate Gothic:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Courier:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Impact:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Lucida Handwriting:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Tahoma:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Times New Roman:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Trebuchet MS:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Verdana:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
I do believe the different platforms handle typesetting in different ways, so that the same block of text might flow differently, and occupy a different amount of space, in different platforms - even if using the same fonts. Therefore, it might be a good idea to account for this difference when designing the interface, and leave a bit of extra room!
I hope this helps!
Kind Regards,
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Igor de Oliveira Couto
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