< Font selection
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Default Fonts
Please help populate these tables with appropriate default fonts.
I am looking for fonts that are high-quality and widely distributed.
For example, the Times New Roman font is of good quality and very widely
distributed.
See the
CSS generic font spec for the meaning of the term serif and so on.
Windows
| Language |
serif |
sans-serif |
cursive |
fantasy |
monospace |
| x-western |
Times New Roman |
Arial |
Monotype Corsiva |
Impact |
Courier New |
| x-central-euro |
Times New Roman |
Arial |
Monotype Corsiva |
Impact |
Courier New |
| x-cyrillic |
Times New Roman |
Arial |
Monotype Corsiva |
Impact |
Courier New |
| el |
Times New Roman |
Arial |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
Courier New |
| tr |
Times New Roman |
Arial |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
Courier New |
| he |
David |
MS Tahoma |
Guttman Yad-Light |
fantasy? |
Miriam Fixed |
| ar |
Arabic Transparent |
MS Tahoma |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
Courier New |
| th |
Cordia New |
Cordia New |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| ja |
MS Mincho |
MS Gothic |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
MS Gothic |
| zh-CN |
SimSun |
SimHei |
KaiTi |
fantasy? |
NSimSun |
| ko |
BatangChe |
GulimChe |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| zh-TW |
PMingLiU |
sans-serif? |
DFKai-SB |
fantasy? |
MingLiU |
| Language? |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
Need to check localized versions of Windows. They may have additional fonts
and also alternate names (aliases?) for the above-mentioned fonts. TrueType
files contain multiple names (in multiple languages?).
Macintosh
| Language |
serif |
sans-serif |
cursive |
fantasy |
monospace |
| en,de,etc. |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| ar |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| pl,etc. |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| zh-TW |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| ru,etc. |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| el |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| he |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| ja |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| ko |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| th |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| tr |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| Language? |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
Unix
| Language |
serif |
sans-serif |
cursive |
fantasy |
monospace |
| en,de,etc. |
adobe-times |
adobe-helvetica |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
adobe-courier |
| pl,etc. |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| eo,etc. |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| lv,etc. |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| ru,etc. |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| ar |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| el |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| he |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| tr |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| 8859-15 |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| ja |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| zh-CN |
AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni |
sans-serif? |
AR PL ZenKai Uni |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| ko |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| zh-TW |
AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni |
sans-serif? |
AR PL ZenKai Uni |
fantasy? |
monospace? |
| Language? |
serif? |
sans-serif? |
cursive? |
fantasy? |
monospace? |