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Cross-OS Font Stacks

If I find more I will add them to this article. For those of you who know of others please leave your comment and a source for it too, which will allows us to trace and see the work done.

Monospace Font Stacks

Fixing Monospace Sizing (Eric Meyer)

• Courier, “Courier New”, “Nimbus Mono L”, “DejaVu Sans Mono”, ”Lucida Console”, monospace; (ars-infomatica)
• Monaco,”Bitstream Vera Sans Mono”, “Lucida Console”,Terminal,monospace; (codestyle)
• Consolas, “Andale Mono WT”, “Andale Mono”, “Lucida Console”, “Lucida Sans Typewriter”, “DejaVu Sans Mono”, “Bitstream Vera Sans Mono”, “Liberation Mono”, “Nimbus Mono L”, Monaco, “Courier New”, Courier, monospace; (site point)

Serif Font Stacks

• “Palatino Linotype”, Georgia, “URW Palladio L”, “Century Schoolbook L”, serif; (ars-infomatica)
  • “Palatino Linotype”, Palatino, Palladio, “URW Palladio L”, “Book Antiqua”, Baskerville, “Bookman Old Style”, “Bitstream Charter”, “Nimbus Roman No9 L”, Garamond, “Apple Garamond”, “ITC Garamond Narrow”, “New Century Schoolbook”, “Century Schoolbook”, “Century Schoolbook L”, Georgia, serif; (site point)
• “Times New Roman”, “Bitstream Charter”, Sylfaen, Times, Georgia, serif; (ars-infomatica)
  • Georgia,”New Century Schoolbook”, “Nimbus Roman No9 L”,serif; (codestyle)
  • Constantia, “Lucida Bright”, Lucidabright, “Lucida Serif”, Lucida, “DejaVu Serif,” “Bitstream Vera Serif”, “Liberation Serif”, Georgia, serif; (site point)
  • Cambria, “Hoefler Text”, Utopia, “Liberation Serif”, “Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular”, Times, “Times New Roman”, serif; (site point)
• Frutiger, “Frutiger Linotype”, Univers, Calibri, “Gill Sans”, “Gill Sans MT”, “Myriad Pro”, Myriad, “DejaVu Sans Condensed”, “Liberation Sans”, “Nimbus Sans L”, Tahoma, Geneva, “Helvetica Neue”, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; (site point)

Sans-Serif Font Stacks

• Arial, “Microsoft Sans Serif”, Tahoma, “Nimbus Sans L”, Helvetica, sans-serif; (ars-infomatica)
• Verdana, “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, Geneva, ”URW Gothic L”, sans-serif; (ars-infomatica)
• Corbel, “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, “Lucida Sans”, “DejaVu Sans”, “Bitstream Vera Sans”, “Liberation Sans”, Verdana, “Verdana Ref”, sans-serif; (site point)
• “Segoe UI”, Candara, “Bitstream Vera Sans”, “DejaVu Sans”, “Bitstream Vera Sans”, “Trebuchet MS”, Verdana, “Verdana Ref”, sans-serif; (site point)

Impact Font Stacks

• Impact, “Arial Black”, sans-serif; (ars-infomatica)
• Impact, Haettenschweiler, “Franklin Gothic Bold”, Charcoal, “Helvetica Inserat”, “Bitstream Vera Sans Bold”, “Arial Black”, sans-serif; (site point)

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