How do I find and use the sans-serif font?

[Oimachi2]

I'm trying to build my site around adsense to blend.

Adsense uses Arial, Sans-serif font.

How do I get that font?

Thanks

[Cakkie]

Arial is a default font, and sans-serif is a default font family. You should have them ;)

If you want to know how to use them in your page, you can use the font-family directive in CSS.

[Oimachi2]

Hi Cakie,

I use front page, no CSS. Are you saying that if I choose the font Arial it automatically is sans-serif, is it the same for notepad, wordpad and MS Word?

Thanks

[celgins]

Hi Oimachi2...

Yes. Arial is a Sans-Serif font and so are: Geneva, Helvetica, Lucida Sans, Trebuchet, Verdana

If you use those in Frontpage, the Arial font should look the same in Word, Frontpage, within web browsers, etc.

[stapel]

Type a line of text in, say, Courier.

Type the same line in, say, Arial.

Compare.

The Courier text has little doo-dads hanging off the ends of the letters. For instance, an "n" will have the little horizontal lines at the bottoms of the down-strokes. But the Arial text doesn't have these.

The doo-dads are "serifs". "Sans" means "without". Any text with the doo-dads is in a "serif" font; any text without the doo-dads is in a "sans serif" font.

Eliz.