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CSS Font Stacks

Common CSS font-stacks

Serif font-stacks

GARAMOND (23.84% on Mac, 86.24% on Windows)

Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif;

LUCIDA BRIGHT (64.90% on Mac, 33.84% on Windows) Huge x-height

"Lucida Bright", Georgia, serif;

PALATINO (79.71% on Mac, 98.04% on Windows)

Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", "Book Antiqua", Georgia, serif;

BIG CASLON (85.10% on Mac)

"Big Caslon", "Book Antiqua", "Palatino Linotype", Georgia, serif;

DIDOT (87.72% on Mac)

Didot, "Didot LT STD", "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;

BASKERVILLE (88.60% on Mac, 49.10% on Windows)

Baskerville, "Baskerville old face", "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;

HOEFLER TEXT (88.70% on Mac, 1.16% on Windows)

"Hoefler Text", "Baskerville old face", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;

BODONI (47.89% on Windows)

"Bodoni MT", Didot, "Didot LT STD", "Hoefler Text", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;

GOUDY OLD STYLE (51.30% on Windows)

"Goudy Old Style", Garamond, "Big Caslon", "Times New Roman", serif;

CONSTANTIA (53.81% on Windows)

Constantia, Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;

CAMBRIA (54.51% on Windows)

Cambria, Georgia, serif;

BOOK ANTIQUA (86.09% on Mac)

"Book Antiqua", Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", "Palatino LT STD", Georgia, serif;

Sans-serif font-stacks

OPTIMA (90.14% on Mac)

Optima, Segoe, "Segoe UI", Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;

FUTURA (91.01% on Mac)

Futura, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif;

GILL SANS (91.52% on Mac, 51.74% on Windows)

"Gill Sans", "Gill Sans MT", Calibri, sans-serif;

TREBUCHET (94.20% on Mac, 99% on Windows)

"Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif;

HELVETICA NEUE (94.74% on Mac)

"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

VERDANA (96.81% on Mac, 99.40% on Windows)

Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;

LUCIDA GRANDE (99.13% on Mac, 98.25% on Windows)

"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;

GENEVA (98.84% on Mac)

Geneva, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;

SEGOE (45.04% on Windows)

Segoe, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;

CANDARA (54.31% on Windows)

Candara, Calibri, Segoe, "Segoe UI", Optima, Arial, sans-serif;

CALIBRI (54.76% on Windows)

Calibri, Candara, Segoe, "Segoe UI", Optima, Arial, sans-serif;

FRANKLIN GOTHIC MEDIUM (97.89% on Windows)

"Franklin Gothic Medium", Arial, sans-serif;

TAHOMA (99.30% on Windows)

Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;

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