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The following 11 fonts are installed on both pc and mac and are considered as 'safe':
arial, arial black, comic sans ms, courier, courier new, georgia, helvetica, impact, times new roman, trebuchet ms, verdana

The remainder of this web page is an "experiment". The results of the experiment hold true only for your computer. If any of the font names listed below are displayed in the actual font style indicated, then that font is installed for your web browser. On the other hand, if the name says "chicago," for example, or "desdemona," and all you see is Times New Roman or whatever is your default, then you do not have the chicago or desdemona font as part of your browser. Once you view this page using different browsers or older computers, you will notice that the appearance of the page will differ depending on the font capabilities of each browser or system. Then you will understand why the 11 fonts listed above are the only ones considered "SAFE."
The exellent "webdings" font consists of symbols and therefore could be of tremendous use to webmasters. However, "webdings" is the perfect example of an unsafe font since it is not supported by Netscape and will be rendered as the user's default font, meaning that Netscape users will see gibberish letters instead of symbols.


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