Fonts for your web pages
One of many first time mistakes you can make on your first home or web page is the fonts you use.
Everybody loves the unusual Font on his/her computer that no one else has, let alone seen. Using it on your web pages though will be of no consequence to others viewing your page from the Internet. That is because no one will actually see the pages written in your unique and special font UNLESS they have the same font on their computer!
So before you use the rare "Aladdin" font for the heading of your web page or anywhere else, remember that only you and probably the guy who created the Aladdin font might see the page as you had designed it!
The rest of us? We will probably see the same heading in the usual Arial or worse, in Times New Roman.
Here is a list of fonts that are recommended to be used for your web pages as they were especially created for reading web pages off the computer screen and because these are more than likely on every computer as they are installed with MSIE (Andale Mono & Georgia from the Supplemental Font Pack Add On of MSIE 5.5 or download from here).
Andale Mono * (formerly Monotype.com)
Arial
Arial Black
Comic Sans
Courier New
Georgia *
Impact *
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Webdings (Webdings)
Adobe Minion Web 1 not available in MAC OS X
1 Adobe Minion Web was only ever supplied by Microsoft as part of the Internet Explorer 4 supplemental font pack add-on.
Also you could probably get away with using Tahoma and Garamond or any font which comes with the standard install of Windows for quite some time already. Do this only if you find that over 95% of your readers use the Windows OS.
The above fonts, you'll be happy to note is now also available with MAC OS X
* fonts not available on MAC OS X Public Beta version
