Comments on: 16 Gorgeous Web Safe Fonts To Use With CSS

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:07:17 +0000

Thanksw so much, especially to all those that left comments. I’m a true newbie to css and appreciate hearing from the vets. I’ll take any tips I can get. Now, are you sure I can’t do my entire site in Comic sans?

By: Jai Catalano

Jai Catalano — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:51:39 +0000

What font are you using?

By: Satriyo

Satriyo — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:38:47 +0000

Usefull for me, thanks

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:08:36 +0000

Nice article! The thing is that some of these font work only on mac, others only on PC… there should be a 100% cross-platform and cross-browser way to implement these fonts…

By: Matej Latin

Matej Latin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:38:08 +0000

Thanks for this collection.. now I can use these as a replacement for some similar fonts tha I’d have to import using the font-face. Reducing the website size in kb is always a good idea

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:55:47 +0000

Thanks for the great selection of fonts. I was having trouble making up my mind on which one to use.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:39:36 +0000

Some great fonts, thanks for sharing

By: John

John — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:37:18 +0000

Hi Ron
“web safe” refers to fonts that can be used on all platforms.
I had a go but @font-face doesnt work for all browsers and all platforms. Wish it did though!

By: Mary Baum

Mary Baum — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:08:16 +0000

A few of the fonts in this post get their web-safe cred by being included with Office applications, so it’s a better-than-even shot that a given user has installed them either by not paying attention in the course of the Office install or by paying attention and opting for the fonts. So whether a given typeface is web-safe or not depends on whether the audience segment in the aggregate likely installed the fonts with Office.

So then the question is: where are you going to use a half-web-safe font?

I think for the back of the stack you want truly web-safe fonts. For the front of the stack, why bother with these when you’ve got @font-face? Those give us TRULY gorgeous type.

Fifteen years was a very long time with the six or seven web-safe faces (Comic Sans does NOT count).

I frankly hope never to spec any of those for the front of a font stack ever again, unless they’re part of a client’s actual brand. And then we’ll probably use the real typeface – not the web-safe, lame substitute.

Now, again, to be clear, I’m talking about the front of the stack – the place where we spec what’s going to happen in modern browsers on computers that were built in the last five years.

By: Petr Chutný

Petr Chutný — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:21:21 +0000

This is very handy, thank you!