HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
Font Listing
Likely Rendering
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
Arial Black, Gadget, sans-serif
Comic Sans MS, cursive
Courier New, Courier,
monospace
Georgia, serif
Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif
Lucida Console, Monaco,
monospace
Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida
Grande, sans-serif
MS Sans Serif, Geneva,
sans-serif
MS Serif, New York, serif
Palatino Linotype, Palatino, Book
Antiqua, serif
Symbol
Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif
Times New Roman, Times, serif
Trebuchet MS, Helvetica,
sans-serif
Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif
Webdings
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Common Font Combinations
Documenting these variations is a bit troubling, so a simple test example can be built as
shown in Figure B-4 with sample renderings to compare against.
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Obviously, leaving font rendering up to chance is not desirable, so we examine some
other solutions to bring fonts to Web pages.
