Web Safe Fonts and Generic Font Family Fallbacks
This list of web safe fonts and generic font family fallbacks for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a useful tool for different browsers and operating systems (OS). The examples below are of course browser dependent. Generic font families defined in HTML and CSS:
- Cursive
- Fantasy
- Monospace
- Sans-serif
- Serif
| Examples | Font Families |
|---|---|
| font-family | Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif |
| font-family | "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif |
| font-family | "Bookman Old Style", serif |
| font-family | "Comic Sans MS", cursive, sans-serif |
| font-family | Courier, monospace |
| font-family | "Courier New", Courier, monospace |
| font-family | Garamond, serif |
| font-family | Georgia, serif |
| font-family | Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif |
| font-family | "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace |
| font-family | "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif |
| font-family | "MS Sans Serif", Geneva, sans-serif |
| font-family | "MS Serif", "New York", sans-serif |
| font-family | "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif |
| font-family | Symbol, sans-serif |
| font-family | Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif |
| font-family | "Times New Roman", Times, serif |
| font-family | "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif |
| font-family | Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif |
| font-family | Webdings, sans-serif |
| font-family | Wingdings, "Zapf Dingbats", sans-serif |