Web Safe Fonts

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Many aspiring web designers design a site on their computer which looks outstanding.  Great use of typefaces.  Script fonts in just the right place.  The typeface fits their logo just perfectly.

But then they view their site on another computer.  All their beautiful script fonts are now plain Times New Roman.  What happened?  What can we do about it?

The Problem
The issue is that the web designer above designed a site using fonts that were installed on their machine, but not the second machine.  When a browser come across a font it doesn't have access to it goes to its default, which for PCs is usually Times New Roman.

So, what can we do?
The best bet is to stay with the so-called web safe fonts.  These are Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans, Verdana, Tahoma, Times, Times New Roman, and Georgia.  Most of these are all displayed as graphics below so you can see what they are supposed to look like.  I didn't have Helvetica or Times on my computer, so I couldn't do graphics for them.  But Arial and Helvetic are very similar and Times and Times New Roman are very similar. 

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Generally, if you stay with the fonts listed on this page you're going to be pretty safe. 
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