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The other commonly available serif font, Times New Roman (Times being a rough equivalent
on Linux systems), is inferior to Georgia, but worth using as a fallback. Like Arial, its
popularity is the result of its prevalence as a system font.
Elsewhere, Palatino is fairly common??”installed by default on Windows (as Palatino
Linotype), and available on Mac systems that have Classic or iWork installed. Mac owners
with Office will also have the virtually identical Book Antiqua. That said, if using these
fonts, you??™ll still need to fall back to safer serifs, as mentioned earlier.
See the following illustration for a comparison of serif fonts on Mac (left) and Windows
(right).
Fonts for headings and monospace type
The remaining ???safe??? fonts are typically display fonts (for headings) or monospace fonts
for when each character needs to be the same width??”for example, when adding code
examples to a web page.
Arial Black and Impact are reasonable choices for headings, although they must be handled
with care. The bold version of Impact looks terrible (and isn??™t displayed at all in some
browsers), and some browsers by default render headings in bold, so this must be overridden
in CSS. Often, large versions of fonts mentioned in the previous two sections are
superior.
Courier New is more useful and a good choice when you need a monospace font. Note
that falling back to Courier for Linux is recommended.
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