Fonts are specific to platform. You will have different look and feel of a web page on different machines running different operating systems like Windows, Linux or Mac iOS. Here we are giving a list of fonts which are available in various operating systems.
HTML <font> tag is deprecated in version 4.0 onwards and now all fonts are set by using CSS. Here is the simple syntax of setting font of a body of web page.
body{font-family:"new century schoolbook";}or
<body style = "font-family:new century schoolbook;">
Example
Let’s look at the basic example of the usage of the fonts in the HTML document
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Font Setting Using CSS</title></head><body><p>Change any of the style and try it.</p><div style="font-family:verdana;">This is demo for font family</div><br /><div style="font-size:120%;">This is demo for font size</div><br /><div style="font-size:14pt;">This is demo for font size</div></body></html>When we run the above code, the output window will pop up displaying the text with different fonts displayed on the webpage.
Fonts for Microsoft Systems
Following are the fonts for Microsoft Systems listed below −
| Font | Font | Font |
|---|---|---|
| Andale Mono | Arial | Arial Bold |
| Arial Italic | Arial Bold Italic | Arial Black |
| Comic Sans MS | Comic Sans MS Bold | Courier New |
| Courier New Bold | Courier New Italic | Courier New Bold Italic |
| Georgia | Georgia Bold | Georgia Italic |
| Georgia Bold Italic | Impact | Lucida Console |
| Lucida Sans Unicode | Marlett | Minion Web |
| Symbol | Times New Roman | Times New Roman Bold |
| Times New Roman Italic | Times New Roman Bold Italic | Tahoma |
| Trebuchet MS | Trebuchet MS Bold | Trebuchet MS Italic |
| Trebuchet MS Bold Italic | Verdana | Verdana Bold |
| Verdana Italic | Verdana Bold Italic | Webdings |
Fonts for Macintosh Systems
Following is the list of fonts supported by Macintosh System 7 and higher versions.
| Font | Font | Font |
|---|---|---|
| American Typewriter | Andale Mono | Apple Chancery |
| Arial | Arial Black | Brush Script |
| Baskerville | Big Caslon | Comic Sans MS |
| Copperplate | Courier New | Gill Sans |
| Futura | Herculanum | Impact |
| Lucida Grande | Marker Felt | Optima |
| Trebuchet MS | Verdana | Webdings |
| Palatino | Symbol | Times |
| Osaka | Papyrus | Times New Roman |
| Textile | Zapf Dingbats | Zapfino |
| Techno | Hoefler Text | Skia |
| Hoefler Text Ornaments | Capitals | Charcoal |
| Gadget | Sand |
Fonts for Unix Systems
Following is the list of fonts supported by most Unix System variants
| Font | Font | Font |
|---|---|---|
| Charter | Clean | Courier |
| Fixed | Helvetica | Lucida |
| Lucida bright | Lucida Typewriter | New Century Schoolbook |
| Symbol | Terminal | Times |
| Utopia |
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