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Fonts

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Choosing an appropriate font is important so that the text has the desired appearance. If a user's computer does not have the chosen font installed, then the browser will load a default font (usually Times New Roman).

The browser will try using the first font, but if it is not installed on the user's computer, then it will try the next font listed. You may find a neat looking font somewhere, but someone viewing your site can only see it if it is installed on their computer. For that reason, you will want to list several choices for your font. When you use "font-family" in your CSS, it might look something like this:

p {font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma;}

Here is a site that discusses font-families that are supposed safe for both Mac's and Windows based PC's.

This site gives additional details about safe web fonts.

You can see what fonts are available on your computer by opening up a word processing program (like Microsoft Word) and try formatting some text font.

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