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Installed Fonts
Windows XP Installed Fonts List
Fonts have to be already installed on the visitor's computer in order to show up and, until recently, the many different systems used by visitors had only two fonts in common: Arial and Times New Roman.
Mac Installed Fonts Lists
Macs either have Arial and Times New Roman or use different but very similar fonts to these two.
Graphic images like the one above are created to display additional fonts in logos, illustrations and headlines. You can use fonts you have on your computer to create graphic images and they will display properly on a web page regardless of whether the visitor has your fonts installed.
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Fonts For Web Pages
Traditionally the only proportional fonts you could safely use for web pages were:
While designers often still stick to these web rules today, usually over 90% of visitors now are using Windows XP and Internet Explorer. This means that there is an expanded list of fonts that we can use: the fonts that come installed with Windows XP.
90% to 95% of your visitors will see your font choices from the expanded list and the rest will see "plain" text. Macs with Internet Explorer installed will also have some of these fonts.
Click here for a printable table of expanded fonts showing normal, bold, italic and bold italic.
Missing some core fonts?
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Expanded Fonts List
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The two lists of fonts will look the same
if you have each font installed on this
computer.
Arial
Arial Black
Comic Sans MS
Courier New
Franklin Gothic Medium
Georgia
Impact
Lucida Console
Lucida Sans Unicode
Microsoft Sans Serif
Modern
Palatino Linotype
Script
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
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