| In Web publishing, you're more limited with text than you are in print publishing. Many older browsers support only Times or Courier by default. The latest versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer support the use of fonts other than Courier and Times, but only if the machine doing the browsing has the fonts you specify installed. And not all browsers offer the full range of font size, color, or style capabilities. To make matters even more complicated, some people change their browser's default font. In addition, fonts generally appear larger on a PC than on a Mac. The best you can do to deal with these issues is to identify your target audience and see which browsers and systems they are using, and design for the most popular ones.
You may specify the font you'd like the browsers to display through the "FACE" attribute of the "FONT" HTML tag. But to increase the chances that you will get a typeface you are happy with, you should specify multiple fonts. The browser will check for the presence of each font in the order given. Always specify at least one typeface from each operating system (example: "Verdana, Geneva) to avoid having the browser render your pages in the default font. Example:
<FONT FACE = "Helvetica, Geneva"> Typefaces </FONT>
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The table below lists the fonts that come with Windows 95 and the Macintosh operating system.
| Windows 95 Default Fonts |
Macintosh OS Default Fonts |
| Arial |
Chicago |
| Arial Black |
Courier |
| Arial Narrow |
Geneva |
| Arial Rounded MT Bold |
Helvetica |
| Book Antiqua |
Monaco |
| Bookman Old Style |
New York |
| Century Schoolbook |
Palatino |
| Courier |
Times |
| Courier New |
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| Garamond |
Additional fonts for users with laser printers |
| MS Dialog |
New Century Schoolbook |
| MS Dialog Light |
Avant Garde |
| MS LineDraw |
Bookman |
| MS Serif |
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| MS Sans Serif |
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| MS SystemX |
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| Times New Roman |
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| Verdana |
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To specify more than one type of font for Body Text:
<FONT FACE = "Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Verdana"> Typefaces </FONT> |
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