Light Font-astic

Fonts dramatically change the appearance of a web site.  That’s the good news.  The bad news is each computer must have that font loaded in it to display a page using a particular font - in other words, not every computer will see a webpage in the way your computer sees it.

There are some fonts that are commonly available on all variations of Windows, Mac and other operating systems and we have listed them below.

We feel it is important to not only choose the right font for your site but also just as important to choose secondary 'back-up' fonts.  We normally list six fonts in order of preference, which will include fonts commonly available to all computers.

It sounds worrying but it isn’t.  Let our experience guide you through the vagaries of which fonts are most likely to work and together we will create a site that will be a boon to your club / group or business.

These first examples of different fonts are those that come pre-installed on computers using Windows operating systems so are common to most computers.  We therefore consider these to be 'safe', but there are no guarantees.

You may notice some appear larger than others - choose a font that suits your website but bear in mind if it needs to be made smaller or larger, on computers without that font installed, the default font will then appear larger or smaller than normal.

Fonts such as Arial and Verdana are particularly favoured by people with reading problems, such as dislexia.  Others, such as Times New Roman, are harder to read.


Common Fonts, available on most computers:

This is written in ARIAL

This is written in Estrangelo Edessa

This is written in Franklin Gothic Medium

This is written in Guatami

This is written in Georgia

This is written in Impact

This is written in Mangal

This is written in Modern

This is written in Palatino Linotype

This is written in Raavi

This is written in Roman

This is written in Script

This is written in Sylfaen

This is written in Trebuchet MS Bold

This is written in TAHOMA

This is written in VERDANA

This is written in Vrinda

Not quite so common, but still widely available:

This is written in ALGERIAN   - (it is always in capitals)

This is written in BRUSH SCRIPT MT

This is written in CASTELLAR   - (it is always in capitals)

This is written in COLONNA MT

This is written in COMIC SANS MS

This is written in COURIER NEW

This is written in CURLZ MT

This is written in DANCE

This is written in DATA

This is written in EUROSTILE

This is written in FORTE

This is written in HARRINGTON

This is written in HELVETICA

This is written in INFORMAL ROMAN

This is written in JOKERMAN

This is written in LOVE

This is written in LUCIDA CALLIGRAPHY

This is written in OLD ENGLISH TEXT MT

This is written in PETRA

This is written in ROCKWELL

This is written in SANS-SERIF