![]() ![]() 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'. This is the reference I use when making web pages and I expect you will find it useful too. 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'. First, realize what fonts the Linux crowd doesn’t have that Windows or Mac users will: Sans-serif fonts: Charcoal, Helvetica, Geneva, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, MS Sans Serif, and Tahoma Serif fonts: Book Antiqua, New York, and Times Monospace font: Lucida Console Fantasy fonts: Symbol. I am not going to mention Windows 98/95 or Mac OS 8/9 as these are legacy systems and the number of users using them for web is shrinking on a daily basis. The Windows fonts are included with Windows XP and later, and the Mac fonts are included with Mac OS X. The table below lists web-safe fonts that are common for both Windows and Macintosh. To list all font faces, run: $ fc-list Use the more command as pager or grep command/egrep command to search for fonts. List all available fonts on Linux using the CLI. Put the fonts into the /.fonts folder in your home directory to use them. The fonts for Macintosh OSX work perfectly on Linux. The files I wanted are in the Library folder, after everything is extracted. ![]()
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