plaIt’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 |