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Comic Sans Criminal - There's help available for people like you! Revised Font Stack | A Way Back. Serious efforts are being made to get more typeface choices on the web to enhance web typography. Still, most of us prefer web-safe fonts like: Verdana, Georgia, Times New Roman and Arial. Though choices are limited, yet the number can be increased by exploring other pre-installed fonts. “… font stacks are ultimately design factors, and should be scrutinized as such.” —Nathan Ford, Better CSS font stacks Baskerville, Garamond and Palatino have already been used a few times to create font-stacks that inspire.

But, there are a few other typefaces which haven’t been tried earlier. I’ve selected 10 popular typefaces, serif and sans-serif, each from the survey. MicrosoftTahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif;Microsoft.com will be (in most cases) rendered in Verdana on Mac, and in Tahoma on Windows. Times New RomanIf we look at the above snapshots taken from Sushi & Robots’ about page, we will find that Palatino and Georgia have different x-height (and weight) than Baskerville and Garamond. Web Fonts. 362_6399_500x500.jpg (Image JPEG, 500x500 pixels) Kari Display™ font family. Mousse Script font family. Lil Rhino™ font family. Uni Sans™ font family. Sommet™ font family. Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.

Cufón - fonts for the people. Typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML.