What font to use for both IE and Firefox?

[scuzzo84]

Whats a font or font family that I can pick that will work fine with both IE and Firefox?

This is what happened. I tried aria at home on Linux with FF and it loaded some nasty font looking like courier or times roman, not sure what it was , I guess arial is a MS thing. Anyways I changed it to sans-serif and it made a nice font. I come to work and try opening the site with FF and it loads a nasty font.... but IE looks just fine. I just want a nice clean font like arial to load nicely on both browsers on any platform to be exact. Thanks!

[icantthinkofone]

Arial should work just fine. The font is dependent on the OS not the browser. Google for windowsmacfonts for a list since we can't link anything here.

[encyclo]

You should alsway specify a series of different fonts in order of preference, ending with a generic font such as serif or sans-serif. This will ensure that users without the preferred font installed will get an appropriate alternative. For example:

p {font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;}

As you have found, MS fonts are usually not installed by default in Linux due to licensing issues, but almost all distributions offer them as a easy download - look for the mscorefonts package.

[Wlauzon]

Do a search for "web safe fonts".

The browser - Firefox or IE or Opera or whatever has nothing to do with fonts. it is the OS.