Very common-this page uses Verdana as its body type. Another Microsoft font, Tahoma is extremely similar to Verdana, but has a narrower body, less generous counters, and tighter letter spacing. Another Helvetica follower, Geneva was developed by Mac, and has rounder bowls, and is lighter than Helvetica. Dec 11, 2018  What are some web safe fonts? The best practice at one time was to specify Verdana, Arial, Times, Georgia. This practice was from a time when user had only a limited choice of typeface families that came with their computer. So you designed for an.

Core fonts for the Web was a project started by Microsoft in 1996 to create a standard pack of fonts for the World Wide Web. It included the proprietary fonts Andalé Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings, all of them in TrueType font format packaged in executable files ('.exe') for Microsoft Windows and in BinHexedStuff-It archives ('.sit.hqx') for Macintosh. These packages were published as freeware under a proprietary license imposing some restrictions on distribution.^[1]

Microsoft terminated the project in 2002,^[2][3] but because of the license terms, the distributed files are still legally available from some third-party websites. Updated versions of the fonts produced since 2002 have not been published as freeware and are usually available only after purchasing a license or as a part of some commercial products.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Overview[edit]

The fonts were licensed to Microsoft by Monotype Corporation or designed for Microsoft by Microsoft's own font designers or external designers. The fonts were designed to:

• Be highly legible on screen;
• Offer a wide range of typographic “timbres” within a small number of typefaces; and
• Support extensive internationalisation.

These design goals and the fonts' broad availability have made some of them extremely popular with web designers. However, these proprietary fonts (or some of them) are not distributed with some modern operating systems by default (e.g. in Android, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris or some Symbian versions)^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]} and they are substituted by other fonts (e.g. by free software fonts, such as Liberation fonts, Ghostscript fonts,^[21]Droid fonts, DejaVu fonts and others). All of these fonts in their latest versions are installed by default in the latest versions of Mac OS X (i.e. Mac OS X 10.4 and newer), but older versions of Mac OS X did not install some of them by default (e.g. Andalé Mono, Impact) and old versions of Mac OS also did not include many of them (e.g. Arial).^[4][22][23] Some of these fonts are also not installed by default in iOS (e.g. Andalé Mono, Comic Sans MS, Impact, Webdings).^[24]

While the project has formally ended, the benefits of using broadly available fonts remain: to increase the likelihood that content will be displayed in the chosen font, or in a metric-compatible alternative.In addition to the Core fonts for the Web, some newer fonts, such as those packaged with Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org or other software could form a new canon of core fonts. Broader web browser adoption of the web fonts specification may ultimately render the notion of core fonts obsolete by allowing the real-time downloading and display of specific fonts.

Program termination and software licence agreement issues[edit]

The project was terminated in August 2002, allegedly because of frequent EULA violations. A Microsoft spokesman declared in 2002 that 'Microsoft has also found that the downloads were being abused—repackaged, modified and shipped with commercial products in violation of the EULA.' 'Most users who wanted the fonts have downloaded them already.'^[2][25][26] However, that same EULA allows redistribution if the packages are kept in their original format (.exe or .sit.hqx) and original filenames (e.g. times32.exe) and not used to add value to commercial products.^[1][27] As a result, these packages are still available for download on third-party websites under the terms of the original web fonts end user license agreement.

The EULA referenced below also requires^[28] that a copy be applied to transferees. The EULA is therefore directly linked to: for example, on the documentation page for the Sourceforge 'corefonts' download package.^[29] If a third party offering the fonts for download does not offer a copy of the EULA, the legal status of such a download is questionable. However, a copy of the EULA is obtainable via the FAQ maintained on Microsoft's typography website and from some other third-party websites.^[3][1][27]

For Windows, the fonts are provided as self-extracting executables (.exe); each includes an embedded cabinet file that contains a font file in TrueType format (.ttf). For the Macintosh, the files are provided as BinHexedStuff-It archives (.sit.hqx). It is forbidden to rename, edit or create any derivative works from the executables (e.g. arial32.exe) or archives (Arial.sit.hqx), other than subsetting when embedding them in documents.^[1][27] The fonts can be installed and used on non-Windows or non-Macintosh operating systems, as long as they are distributed in original form (original .exe files or .sit.hqx files) and with original name (e.g. arial32.exe). A cabinet file can be extracted in an end-user's system with appropriate software, if such software is available.

The latest font-versions that were available from Microsoft's Core fonts for the Web project were 2.x (e.g. 2.82 for Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New for MS Windows^[30]), published in 2000. Later versions (such as version 3 or version 5 with many new characters) were not available from this project. A Microsoft spokesman declared in 2002 that members of the open source community 'will have to find different sources for updated fonts… Although the EULA did not restrict the fonts to just Windows and Mac OS they were only ever available as Windows .exe's and Mac archive files.'^[2]

Even though the fonts are available from some third-party web sites (such as an anonymous SourceForge project) and are included with Mac OS, Håkon Wium Lie (Chief technical officer of Opera Software) cited the cancellation of the project as an example of Microsoft resisting interoperability.^[31]

In July 2007, Apple announced that it had renewed its licensing agreement with Microsoft for the use of the latest versions of Microsoft Windows core fonts.^{[4][5][6][32][33]}

List of fonts and files[edit]

The TrueType core fonts for the Web project included the following files under a proprietary license:^[30][34]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdMicrosoft (2001-12-28). 'TrueType core fonts for the Web EULA'. Archived from the original on 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
2. ^ ^abcMark Hachman (2002-08-14). 'Microsoft Withdraws Free Web Fonts'. ExtremeTech. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
3. ^ ^abMicrosoft (2002-07-25). 'TrueType core fonts for the Web FAQ'. Archived from the original on 2002-01-24. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
4. ^ ^abcPaul McDougall (2007-08-03). 'Microsoft, Apple Strike Font Agreement'. Retrieved 2011-06-25.
5. ^ ^abJose Vilches (2007-08-03). 'Microsoft and Apple extend font licensing agreement'. Retrieved 2011-06-25.
6. ^ ^abMicrosoft (2007-08-02). 'Microsoft and Apple Extend Font Licensing Agreement'. Retrieved 2011-06-25. Microsoft Corp. and Apple announced they have renewed their font licensing agreement, giving Apple users ongoing use of the latest versions of Microsoft® Windows® core fonts
7. ^'MONOTYPE IMAGING, INC - END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT'. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
8. ^'Monotype Imaging - Licensing Options'. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
9. ^ ^ab'Microsoft Typography - Fonts - Core fonts for the Web'. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
10. ^'Microsoft Typography - Arial'. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
11. ^'Software Packages in 'lucid', Subsection fonts'. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
12. ^'Software Packages in 'lucid', Subsection x11'. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
13. ^'Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.2) -multiverse-'. Retrieved 2010-07-02. NOTE: the package ttf-liberation contains free variants of the Times, Arial and Courier fonts. It's better to use those instead unless you specifically need one of the other fonts from this package.
14. ^'Fonts supplied with UNIX / XFree and GhostScript'. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
15. ^Brian Leonard (2009-06-17). 'The Observatory - A closer look at using Oracle Solaris - TrueType Fonts'. Retrieved 2011-06-29. As a user of OpenSolaris you may be wondering why it's missing all the popular fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman and the ever popular Wingdings. The license for these fonts prohibit their distribution with the operating system, however, they are freely available to you in the extra repository.
16. ^'Web Safe Fonts Cheat Sheet v.3 – With @font-face Fonts and OS Breakdown'. 2010. Retrieved 2011-06-28. If you are wondering why no other mobile platform is included, even though Symbian, Blackberry and Android have similar or better worldwide market share compared to iOS, this is because there are no standard font installs on any of these platforms. Each handset manufacturer puts whatever fonts they see fit on a device, making it impossible to generate any meaningful statistics.
17. ^'Nokia Sans font for download?'. Archived from the original on 2012-09-29. Retrieved 2011-06-28. If you are wondering why no other mobile platform is included, even though Symbian, Blackberry and Android have similar or better worldwide market share compared to iOS, this is because there are no standard font installs on any of these platforms. Each handset manufacturer puts whatever fonts they see fit on a device, making it impossible to generate any meaningful statistics.
18. ^'Licenses for Fonts Used in Qt for Embedded Linux'. Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
19. ^'FreeBSD - webfonts'. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
20. ^'fonts/msttcorefonts – Microsoft TrueType core fonts'. OpenBSD ports.
21. ^'Linux and Unix family font survey results'. Archived from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
22. ^Bob Baumel (1999-10-27). 'Improving Appearance of Arial Font on the Macintosh'. Retrieved 2010-12-05. One of the most widely specified fonts is Arial, a basic sans-serif font which is always present on Windows systems, but only sometimes on Macintosh computers, and hardly ever on UNIX systems.
23. ^'Mac OS X 10.3: Fonts list'. 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
24. ^'iOS Fonts'. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
25. ^Jesse Burgheimer (2002-08-13). 'Microsoft Cuts the Line to Web Core Fonts'. archive.org. Archived from the original on 2008-01-11. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
26. ^'Microsoft Cuts the Line to Web Core Fonts'. 2002-08-13. Archived from the original on March 13, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
27. ^ ^abcMicrosoft. 'Core fonts for the Web – End-user license agreement'. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
28. ^'Reproduction and Distribution. You may reproduce and distribute an unlimited number of copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT; provided that each copy shall be a true and complete copy, including all copyright and trademark notices, and shall be accompanied by a copy of this EULA. Copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be distributed for profit either on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product.' -- The font EULA
29. ^Noa Resare. 'An easy way to install Microsoft's TrueType core fonts on linux'. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
30. ^ ^abMicrosoft (2001-12-26). 'TrueType core fonts for the Web'. Archived from the original on 2002-08-02. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
31. ^'Opera to MS: Get real about interoperability, Mr Gates — Opera CTO Hakon Lie responds to Bill's clarion call'. 2005-02-11. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
32. ^Mac users’ Internet experience to remain 'seamless' thanks to Microsoft, MAC.BLORGE, archived from the original on 2007-09-28, retrieved 2007-08-03
33. ^'Fonts supplied with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard'. Retrieved 2011-06-25.
34. ^Microsoft (1999-01-15). 'TrueType core fonts for the Web'. Archived from the original on 1999-01-17. Retrieved 2010-07-06.

External links[edit]

• Former Core fonts for the Web homepage (Courtesy of the Internet Archive)
• Current Core fonts for the Web home page, which no longer provides the font files.
• Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for Linux (contains a copy of the EULA, the FAQ, and all the font packages)
• An Initiative started by Andrei Herasimchuk, sends an Open Letter to Adobe in order to improve Web-Typography. Also Designer Jeff Croft proposes the new Windows Vista Typefaces made available in an Open Letter to Apple and Microsoft
• Web Design is 95% Typography (Part 1) and (Part 2) — Two articles on web design and typography that caused controversy.

Last updated: 2008/06/03

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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 the fonts installed in each computer, so it means that every visitor of your web page needs to have all the fonts you want to use installed in his/her computer. Of course, different people will have different fonts installed, and thus come the need of a standard set of fonts. Fortunately, CSS allows set several values for the font-family property, which eases the task a bit.

If you want to know how the fonts are displayed in other OS's or browsers than yours, after the table you can find several screen shots of this page in different systems and browsers. Also, you can take a look to the list of the default fonts included with each version of Windows.

The list

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 fonts shipped with Windows.
• The notes at the bottom contains specific information about some of the fonts.

¹ Georgia and Trebuchet MS are bundled with Windows 2000/XP and they are also included in the IE font pack (and bundled with other MS applications), so they are quite common in Windows 98 systems.

² Symbolic fonts are only displayed in Internet Explorer, in other browsers a font substitute is used instead (although the Symbol font does work in Opera and the Webdings works in Safari).

³ Book Antiqua is almost exactly the same font that Palatino Linotype, Palatino Linotype is included in Windows 2000/XP while Book Antiqua was bundled with Windows 98.

⁴ These fonts are not TrueType fonts but bitmap fonts, so they won't look well when using some font sizes (they are designed for 8, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 24 point sizes at 96 DPI).

⁵ These fonts work in Safari but only when using the normal font style, and not with bold or italic styles. 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).

⁶ These fonts are present in Mac OS X only if Classic is installed (thanks to Julian Gonggrijp for the corrections).

How the fonts look in different systems and browsers

• Mac OS X 10.4.8, Firefox 2.0, font smoothing enabled (thanks to Juris Vecvanags for the screen shot)
• Mac OS X 10.4.4, Firefox 1.5, font smoothing enabled (thanks to Eric Zavesky for the screen shot)
• Mac OS X 10.4.11, Safari 3.0.4, font smoothing enabled (thanks to Nolan Gladius for the screen shot)
• Mac OS X 10.4.4, Safari 2.0.3, font smoothing enabled (thanks to Eric Zavesky for the screen shot)
• Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7, ClearType enabled (thanks to Michiel Bijl for the screen shot)
• Windows Vista, Firefox 2.0, ClearType enabled (thanks to Michiel Bijl for the screen shot)
• Linux (Ubuntu 7.04 + Gnome), Firefox 2.0 (thanks to Juris Vecvanags for the screen shot)

Note that while the ClearType smoothing is applied always, the basic font smoothing of Windows 98/2000/XP is applied only to certain font sizes. That sizes can be specified by the font designer, but usually they are in the ranges of 0-6 and 14+ points (pt).

The Mac font list was obtained from the Browser Safe Fonts PDF of webbedEnvironments and from the List of fonts in Mac OS X of the Wikipedia.

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