What Are the Web Safe Fonts?

Websafe (or "web safe", "safe for the web") fonts are supposedly fonts that are common among all versions of Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. Fonts that you expect everyone viewing your webpage to have:

Current Web Safe Fonts Include:

a. Arial (sans-serif)
b. Courier (serif)
c. Geneva (serif)
d. Georgia (serif)
e. Verdana (sans-serif)
f. Tahoma (sans-serif)
g. Times (serif)

Using Font Families in your CSS Scripts:

Font Families are used in the CSS Script of your website.  There are generally 2 or 3 fonts identified in each Font Family.  If the 1st font is not available in the site visitor's computer, then the 2nd font is used, and so on.  Below are examples of Fonts 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;

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;