Use these with confidence when changing the Fonts within a web page.
One thing you can do to ensure that the font works on most browsers is make a list
that the OS will try. Systems are made to find a Font that works in comparision to the
Font that is required, so making a list it will go through each choice until it finds
one that is compatible. The list should end with a Generic font so if it goes through the list
at least it will find the last one works. To do this you must use font-family just as you would except
you seperate each font with a comma and put quotations marks around the fonts with more that one word.
Example:
p{
font-family:"Lucida Console", Monaco, FreeSerif, Serif;
}
Here is a table with a list of similar fonts for the 3 main OS' today:
| Windows | Mac | Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Arial | Arial | Nimbus Sans L |
| Arial Black | Arial Black | |
| Comic Sans MS | Comic Sans MS | TSCu_Comic |
| Courier New | Courier New | Nimbus Mono L |
| Georgia | Georgia | Nimbus Roman No9 L |
| Lucida Console | Monaco | |
| Palatino | Palatino | FreeSerif |
| Tahoma | Geneva | Kalimati |
| Times New Roman | Times | FreeSerif |
| Trebuchet MS | Helivetica | FreeSerif |
| Verdana | Verdana | Kalimati |