Web-safe Fonts

Once in awhile, one of our colleagues or team members asks which fonts are common enough to all user machines that they can be considered web-safe. With each new release of an operating system -- and sometimes even with version releases -- this changes. So we thought we'd use this post to list today's web-safe fonts.

The following fonts are common to virtually all late-model computers, including Mac, Linux/UNIX, and Windows machines.

Sans Serif

• Andale Mono
• Arial
• Arial Black
• Century Gothic
• Impact
• Trebuchet MS
• Verdana

Serif

• Georgia
• Times New Roman

Monospace

• Courier New
  

Cursive

• Comic Sans MS

NOTE that when using CSS, you can specify the following generic font families in the font-family property: sans-serif, serif, monospace, cursive, or fantasy.