current list of web safe fonts

[paisleyd]

i found a thread ( [webmasterworld.com...] ) from 2002 about fonts. i was wondering where i can find a current 2009 list of web safe fonts. i know technologies are emerging that will allow fonts to live server-side, but i just want a list of web safe fonts to show clients.

thanks

[dreamcatcher]

Hi paisleyd, a warm welcome to WebmasterWorld. :)

Did you try a search on Google?

dc

[paisleyd]

thank you.

i did and found - [ampsoft.net...]

wondering if anyone else had a better example.

[tedster]

For your purposes, that's about as good as it gets, I think. And even with that list, market share will get a bit dicey for some of them. Using a font-family list of choices for the browser is the way to go. Even though it seems "control" is surrendered that way, in reality there is no control anyway.

Windows Vista is preloaded with some new cleartype fonts - Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas - but market share is not really up to par on those. For example, I reverted to XP on several computers and those fonts got lost in the process.

[Wlauzon]

The new Vista fonts are websafe as long as you give an alternative. We have been using them for over a year now.

The important thing, as always, is to give alternatives to your primary font, and to make sure the sizes (em's) match up.

[swa66]

I don't think there is such a thing as a websafe font (aside of the CSS generic fonts [w3.org])

There are quite a few surveys out there of what platform has what font typically installed. And I think there is one lesson: not everything has any font.
One of my favorite places e.g. shows "Arial" to be available on only 97.13% of the tested browsers (Mostly Linux systems that lack it IMHO)
[codestyle.org...]

The solution: be flexible, and list a number of alternate fonts in the font-family ending with one of the generic fonts. It's your best bet to not have it deteriorate too badly if a given font isn't available.