Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts)Last updated: 2. Return to the main page. Introduction. Here you can find the list with the standard set of fonts common to all versions of. Windows and their Mac substitutes, referred sometimes as "browser safe fonts". This is the. reference I use when making web pages and I expect you will find it useful too. If you are new to web design, maybe you are thinking: "Why I have to limit to that small set of fonts?
I have a. large collection of nice fonts in my computer". Well, as seasoned web designers already know, browsers can use only. Of course, different people will. Fortunately, CSS allows. If you want to know how the fonts are displayed in other OS's or browsers than yours, after. Also, you can take a look to the list of the default fonts. Windows. The list.
This post by Jeffrey Zeldman on font rendering in web browsers is a good introduction to the subject in a number of respects, but unfortunately repeats a. Font rasterization is the process of converting text from a vector description (as found in scalable fonts such as TrueType fonts) to a raster or bitmap description. The canvas hack is righteous. Really nice work, Zoltan. In Win XP (not sure about vista/7), there are two smoothing options: Standard and Cleartype.
- When Safari on Windows lots of people including myself were shocked to see how soft, almost blurry the fonts appeared to be in comparison to standard.
- Windows Vista is quickly gaining market shares; in fact, Vista is the fastest selling operating system in history. Our tutorials will show to use Windows Vista, a.
- Subpixel rendering. An obscure feature of LCD displays allows for more sophisticated font smoothing. Each pixel on LCD screen consists of 3 horizontally arranged.
Once Vista was available for beta, many web designers adopted it early to begin trying with varying levels of success to figure out if they can incorporate Vista.
First, a few introductory notes: The names in grey are the generic family of each font. In some cases the Mac equivalent is the same font, since Mac OS X also includes some of the. Windows. The notes at the bottom contains specific information about some of the fonts. Windows fonts / Mac fonts / Font family.
Bellow is the summer of how to completely disable ClearType and font smoothing in Windows 7. 1. Disable ClearType by opening “Control Panel->Fonts. A list with the common fonts to all versions of Windows and their Mac equivalents, useful when creating websites.
Normal style. Bold style. Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans- serif. Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans- serif. Arial Black, Arial Black, Gadget, sans- serif. Arial Black, Arial Black, Gadget, sans- serif. Comic Sans MS, Comic Sans MS5, cursive. Comic Sans MS, Comic Sans MS5, cursive.
Courier New, Courier New, monospace. Courier New, Courier New, monospace.
Georgia. 1, Georgia, serif. Georgia. 1, Georgia, serif. Impact, Impact. 5, Charcoal.
Impact, Impact. 5, Charcoal. Lucida Console, Monaco. Lucida Console, Monaco.
Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans- serif. Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans- serif.
Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua. Palatino, serif. Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua. Palatino, serif. Tahoma, Geneva, sans- serif. Tahoma, Geneva, sans- serif. Times New Roman, Times New Roman, Times, serif. Times New Roman, Times New Roman, Times, serif.
Trebuchet MS1, Trebuchet MS, sans- serif. Trebuchet MS1, Trebuchet MS, sans- serif.
Verdana, Verdana, Geneva, sans- serif. Verdana, Verdana, Geneva, sans- serif. Symbol, Symbol(Symbol. Symbol. 2)Symbol, Symbol(Symbol. Symbol. 2)Webdings, Webdings(Webdings. Webdings. 2)Webdings, Webdings(Webdings. Webdings. 2)Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats(Wingdings.
Zapf Dingbats. 2)Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats(Wingdings. Zapf Dingbats. 2)MS Sans Serif. Geneva, sans- serif. MS Sans Serif. 4, Geneva, sans- serif. MS Serif. 4, New York. MS Serif. 4, New York.
Georgia and Trebuchet MS are bundled with Windows 2. XP and they are. also included in the IE font pack (and bundled with other MS applications), so they. Windows 9. 8 systems. Symbolic fonts are only displayed in Internet Explorer, in other browsers a. Symbol font does work in Opera and the Webdings. Safari). 3 Book Antiqua is almost exactly the same font that Palatino Linotype, Palatino Linotype. Windows 2. 00. 0/XP while Book Antiqua was bundled with Windows 9.
These fonts are not True. Type fonts but bitmap fonts, so they won't.
DPI). 5 These fonts work in Safari but only when using the normal font style. Comic Sans MS works in bold but not in italic. Other Mac. browsers seems to emulate properly the styles not provided by the font (thanks to Christian Fecteau for the tip). These fonts are present in Mac OS X only if Classic is. Julian Gonggrijp for the corrections). How the fonts look in different systems and browsers. Mac OS X 1. 0. 4.
Firefox 2. 0, font smoothing enabled (thanks to Juris Vecvanags for the screen shot)Mac OS X 1. Firefox 1. 5, font smoothing enabled (thanks to Eric Zavesky for the screen shot)Mac OS X 1. Safari 3. 0. 4, font smoothing enabled (thanks to Nolan Gladius for the screen shot)Mac OS X 1. Safari 2. 0. 3, font smoothing enabled (thanks to Eric Zavesky for the screen shot)Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7, Clear.
Type enabled (thanks to Michiel Bijl for the screen shot)Windows Vista, Firefox 2. Clear. Type enabled (thanks to Michiel Bijl for the screen shot)Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6, Clear. Type enabled. Windows XP, Firefox 1. Clear. Type enabled.
Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6, Basic font smoothing enabled. Windows XP, Firefox 1. Basic font smoothing enabled. Windows 2. 00. 0, Internet Explorer 6, Basic font smoothing enabled.
Windows 2. 00. 0, Firefox 1. Basic font smoothing enabled. Linux (Ubuntu 7. 0. Gnome), Firefox 2.
Juris Vecvanags for the screen shot)Note that while the Clear. Type smoothing is applied always, the basic font smoothing of.
Windows 9. 8/2. 00. XP is applied only to certain font sizes. That sizes can be specified by the. The Mac font list was obtained from the Browser Safe Fonts. PDF of webbed. Environments. List. of fonts in Mac OS X of the Wikipedia.
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