Microsoft's Typography site has a pretty comprehensive list of fonts
here:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspx
The list for Mac OS is out of date, but the Windows stuff covers up to
Win XP Service Pack 2.
It also lists Microsoft's core fonts for the web:
Andale Mono (formerly Monotype.com)
Arial
Arial Black
Comic Sans MS
Courier New
Georgia
Impact
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Webdings
Adobe Minion Web
David
On 15/09/2005, at 9:58 AM, Alan Trick wrote:
Paul Bennett wrote:
And Times New Roman is the default font by browsers, if I remember
correctly? At least
IE's default font.
I may be wrong (it happened once before ;) ) but I would think that
the browser would use the default SYSTEM serif font. Seeing as this
(for Windows) is Times New Roman, that's what you'll see on Windows
machines...
Welcoming feedback from those more 'in the know'
Paul
IIRC, you are correct. Although this by many different things. Mainly -
the theme that you are using. If someone installs a different theme,
that may change the default font.
In linux we the same sort of system, except that what is the default
font is less common because of the gtk and qt, and the fact that things
are vey easy to theme. For example in my gtk theme in linux it defaults
to some sans serif font (bitstream vera sans, I think). Then there's
the
Macs which are a whole 'nother ball game.
At any rate, the most important thing is that you can't rely on
anything. There is no way to reliably tell the fonts on your users
machines or seamlessly let them download fonts you want them to use,
because the people who are in charge of this sort of thing are too
greedy to be able work together and create a standard (and the w3
couldn't care less about presentation).
Another really annoying thing is that the fonts are not very consistant
in there sizing. So sometimes I stuble on sites that have really large
or unreadably small font's because of this.
So the story is that you can't expect pixel perfection. HTML and CSS
were not designed for that, if you need that sort of thing I think the
PNG format would be good for you ;)
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