Cosmetic Surgery Marketing on the Internet: Using Browser Safe Fonts on Your Website

It's important that your cosmetic surgery website, or any website for that matter, be designed with 'browser safe' fonts. The type of font that you use for text can make a big difference in the appearance of your site. But because it can also make a difference in the usability of your site, choosing the right font not only requires a sense of aesthetics but a sense of restraint as well.

Browser safe fonts are those fonts which have been preinstalled in operating systems. If you choose a font that is not a browser safe one, visitors coming to your cosmetic surgery site will not be able to read the text on your site without first installing your font type. Listed below are those standard fonts that come preinstalled in both Windows and Macintosh computers. The best approach is to choose three of these browser safe fonts, at least one of which is available in Macintosh and one in Windows.

Browser Safe Fonts For Windows:

Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Arial Black
Comic Sans (Bold)
Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Franklin Gothic Medium (Italic) - as of Windows XP
Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Impact
Lucida Console
Lucida Sans Unicode

Marlett
MS Sans Serif - as of Windows XP
Palatino Linotype (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Symbol
Tahoma (Bold)
Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Webdings

Browser Safe Fonts For Macintosh:

American Typewriter (Bold)
Andale Mono - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Apple Chancery
Apple Symbols
Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Arial Black
Arial Narrow (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Arial Rounded MT Bold
Baskerville (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Big Caslon
Brush Script MT
Capitals - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Charcoal - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Chicago - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Cochin (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Comic Sans MS (Bold)
Copperplate (Bold)
Courier (Bold, Oblique, Bold Oblique) - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Didot (Bold, Italic)
Futura (Sans-serif)
Gadget - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Geneva
Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)

Gill Sans (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Helvetica (Bold, Oblique, Bold Oblique)
Helvetica Neue (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Herculanum
Hoefler Text (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Impact
Marker Felt
Monaco
New York - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Optima (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Palatino (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Papyrus
Sand - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Skia
Symbol
Techno - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Textile - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Times (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Webdings - Only installed in OS X if Classic is installed
Zapf Dingbats
Zapfino