Here is the list of websafe fonts that I use in my own
personal web development. Websafe (or "web safe", "safe for the web") fonts are supposedly
fonts that are common among all versions of Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.
Fonts that you expect everyone viewing your webpage to have.
Please contact me if you know of any other
web-safe fonts that should be added to this list. These font names are
in typical font-family CSS format, in other words (first choice font),
(second choice font), (third choice font), etc. I made them that way so
you could easily copy and paste them into your CSS code. Also, each font
comes with a CSS Generic Font Family fallback font (such as serif
or sans-serif), in case the primary (and secondary) font is not found.
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;
font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif;
font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;
font-family: Courier, monospace;
font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-family: Garamond, serif;
font-family: Georgia, serif;
font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;
font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;
font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
font-family: 'MS Sans Serif', Geneva, sans-serif;
font-family: 'MS Serif', 'New York', sans-serif;
font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;
font-family: Symbol, sans-serif;
font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;
font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-family: Webdings, sans-serif;
font-family: Wingdings, 'Zapf Dingbats', sans-serif;
If you would like to see a preview of what each of these
fonts looks like you can check out my
web safe fonts preview page or if
you want to see a preview of what all the fonts I use look like check
out my full fonts test page.