Not all fonts are installed on both PC and Macintosh computers. If a font isn’t installed on the visitor’s computer, they won’t be able to see the web page as you intended.

There are 12 fonts that are installed on both PC’s and Macintosh computers. These fonts are the safest fonts to use for a html web page.

1. arial
2. arial black
3. comic sans ms
4. courier
5. courier new
6. georgia
7. helvetica
8. impact
9. palatino
10. times new roman
11. trebuchet ms
12. verdana

In addition to using “safe” fonts for web pages, it’s also a good idea to specify more than one font when defining the font face (in HTML) or font-family (in CSS). By specifying more than one font, the browser will use the second or third font specification if the first font is not installed or supported. To specify more than one font, use a “comma” (”,”) to separate the fonts.