Standard Fonts

[Guest]

i was just wondering what the standard fonts that most (if not all) web
browsers have by default?

is Bodoni MT a standard font?

 

[Rob Parsons]

There is an option in the Internet Options control panel for users to select
a default font for web pages(General tab, Fonts button). So in the end it is
up to a user to specify a font. By default if no user default font is not
selected then IE uses the current Windows font.
If you are designing a web page then there is no need to use a <font> tag
unless you want to specify a specific font. If you really need to then
Tahoma is commonly used.

Don't forget that a small proportion of your audience will not be using
wintell (windows-intel) and there is no guarantee that they will have
installed the font that you want them to see. Better to leave the <font tags
completely out of your page. What is important though is the metatag

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

You will find that you can make an artistic page with the appropiate use of
bold and italic tags, and relative sized tags. ie <H1> etc... This will
enable the end user to also select what size they want to see your page text
as.

 

[C A Upsdell]

i was just wondering what the standard fonts that most (if not all) web
browsers have by default?

is Bodoni MT a standard font?

http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_fonts.htm#a01