Web–safe Fonts

Introduction

Web designers are currently limited to using only those fonts in their designs that are installed on the end user's machine. Since we can only rely on those fonts that are pre-installed on user's machine being available to the UA, most designers have limited themselves to using one of the 11 Core Web Fonts that they know will be installed on all Windows and Macs. However, fonts are often pre-installed from other sources:

• Mac and Windows operating systems pre-install fonts.
• All Macs are currently shipped with iLife, which pre-installs fonts.
• Microsoft Word, the most popular Word processing software, pre-installs fonts for both Windows an Macs.

This list of Web safe fonts takes into account the most likely Roman Fonts that will be installed on computers. It lists the font name usable by CSS, weights and styles available, the likelihood the font will be installed (based on install source), and a sample of the font as an image. This list is based on hours of research and cross referencing, but is still being vetted. If you find any errors, please contact Jason at speakinginstlyes dot com.

To be done:

1. Add standard UNIX fonts. I have a font list for Linux but need to cross-reference it.
2. Add Generic font-family names. This can be problematic since there are no hard and fast rules, but I'm working on it.
3. Add create Lorem Ipsum and font-family list features. This will allow visitors to create a custom list of fonts they want to use and preview all of them in Greek text.
4. Continue to vet list for accuracy.