Appendix D: Fonts

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This appendix contains a quick reference for the commonly available fonts and a brief discussion of downloadable fonts.

Specifying Fonts

Under HTML 4.01 and transitional XHTML 1.0, you can use the <font> tag to set a font in a page by setting the face attribute:

  <font face="Britannic Bold">  This is important  </font>  

The Web browser reads this HTML fragment and renders the text in the font named in the face attribute-but only for users who have the font installed on their systems. Multiple fonts can be listed using the face attribute:

  <font face="Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif">  This should be in a different font  </font>  

Here, the browser reads the comma-delimited list of fonts until it finds a font it supports. Given the fragment shown here, the browser would first try Arial, then Helvetica, and finally a sans-serif font before giving up and using the current browser font.

CSS supports the same approach to setting fonts using font-family and font properties. For example, to set the font to Arial for all text in paragraph tags, you would use a rule like the following:

 p {font-family: Arial;} 

Of course, the same restriction of fonts available on the local system applies, so a comma-delimited list of fonts should be specified like so:

 p {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;} 

Regardless of the approach, you can apply a little guesswork to use fonts properly if you consider that most Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX users have a standard set of fonts. If equivalent fonts are specified, it may be possible to provide similar page renderings across platforms.

Fonts for Microsoft Platforms and Browsers

The following fonts are available for Microsoft browsers and systems; they are displayed in Figure D-1.

Font	Systems
Andale Mono	IE4.5 and IE5
Arial	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x , IE4.5, 5, and 6
Arial Bold	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Arial Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Arial Bold Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Arial Black	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, IE3, IE4, IE5, and IE6
Comic Sans MS	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, IE3, IE4, IE5, and IE6
Comic Sans MS Bold	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, IE3, IE4, 5, and IE6
Courier New	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Courier New Bold	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Courier New Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Courier New Bold Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Georgia	Windows XP, Windows 2000, IE4, IE5, and IE6 (add-on)
Georgia Bold	Windows XP, Windows 2000, IE4, IE5, and IE6 (add-on)
Georgia Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, IE4, IE5, and IE6 (add-on)
Georgia Bold Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, IE4, IE5 & IE6 (add-on)
Impact	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Internet Explorer 3, 4, 5, and 6
Lucida Console	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows NT 3. x (except NT 3.0), Windows NT 4 .x
Lucida Sans Unicode	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 3. x (except NT 3.0), Windows NT 4. x
Marlett	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows NT 4. x
Minion Web (Adobe)	Microsoft lists this as one of its " core fonts," but it seems to be available (for sale) only from Adobe (http://www.adobe.com).
Monotype.com	Old version of Andale Mono, still available for Windows 3.1 and 3.11 (add-on)
Symbol	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Times New Roman	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Times New Roman Bold	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Times New Roman Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Times New Roman Bold Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x
Tahoma	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98
Trebuchet MS	Windows XP, Windows 2000, IE4, IE5, and IE6 (add-on)
Trebuchet MS Bold	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2000, IE4, IE5, and IE6 (add-on)
Trebuchet MS Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, IE4, IE5, and IE6 (add-on)
Trebuchet MS Bold Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, IE4, IE5, and IE6 (add-on)
Verdana	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, IE3, IE4, IE5, and IE6
Verdana Bold	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, IE3, IE4, IE5, and IE6
Verdana Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, IIE3, 4, 5, and 6
Verdana Bold Italic	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Internet Explorer 3, IE4, IE5, and IE6
Webdings	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, IE4, IE5, and IE6
Wingdings	Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 x , Windows NT 3. x , Windows NT 4. x

Figure D-1:     Font families available for Microsoft browsers and systems

Note  

For more reference on Microsoft related fonts, please see http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts.

Fonts for Apple Macintosh System 7

The following fonts are available for Macintosh System 7; they are displayed in Figure D-2.

Chicago	Courier Regular	Geneva
Helvetica	Monaco	New York
Palatino	Symbol	Times

Figure D-2:     Font families available with Macintosh System 7

Additional Fonts for Apple Macintosh System 8 and Higher

In addition to the fonts shown for System 7, Macintosh System 8 offers the following fonts; they are displayed in Figure D-3.

Apple Chancery	Hoefler Text	Hoefler Text Ornaments
Skia

Figure D-3:     Additional font families available with Macintosh System 8

Additional Fonts for Apple Macintosh System 8.5 and Higher

In addition to the fonts shown for System 8, Macintosh System 8.5 offers the following fonts; they are displayed in Figure D-4.

Capitals	Charcoal	Gadget
Sand	Techno	Textile

Figure D-4:     Additional font families available with Macintosh System 8.5

Additional Fonts for Apple Macintosh OS X

In addition to the fonts shown for System 8.5, Macintosh OS X offers the following fonts; they are displayed in Figure D-5.

American Typewriter	Andale Mono	Arial
Arial Black	Brush Script	Baskerville
Big Caslon	Comic Sans MS	Copperplate
Courier New	Didot	Georgia
Gill Sans	Futura	Herculanum
Impact	Lucida Grande	Marker Felt
Optima	Osaka	Papyrus
Times New Roman	Trebuchet MS	Verdana
Webdings	Zapf Dingbats	Zapfino

Figure D-5:     Additional fonts for Apple Macintosh OS X

Fonts for UNIX Systems

The following fonts are available for most UNIX systems; they are displayed in Figure D-6.

Charter	Clean	Courier
Fixed	Helvetica	Lucida
Lucidabright	Lucida Typewriter	New Century Schoolbook
Symbol	Terminal	Times
Utopia

Figure D-6:     Font families available on common UNIX systems

Most users may have many other fonts in addition to the ones shown in the tables. Users of Microsoft's Office will probably also have access to fonts such as Algerian, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Britannic Bold, Desdemona, Garamond, Century Gothic, Haettenschweiller, and many others. The various browsers are also trying to make new fonts available. Microsoft's Webdings font provides many common icons for use on Web pages viewed in Internet Explore 4.0 or higher. Some of these icons may be useful for navigation, like arrows, while others look like audio or video symbols that could provide an indication of link content.

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