Web Style Guide: TYPOGRAPHY - Sandhills Community College

Web Style Guide: TYPOGRAPHY
If you don't have ready access to a machine with "the other" operating system and you use Netscape
Navigator, you can use Netscape's "Preferences / Fonts" box to change the default text size from 12 to
14 (Mac users) or from 12 to 11 or 10 (Windows users). If you use Internet Explorer you can use the
"Larger" or "Smaller" controls on the button bar to manipulate the default font size of the text.
Font faces
The basic fonts that come with Windows and the Macintosh operating system are listed below. If you
are going to specify fonts for your Web documents, you should probably use the typefaces listed here,
and you should always specify at least one typeface from each operating system (for example: "Arial,
Geneva") to avoid having the browser render your pages in the default font:
Remember that many Macintosh users who have installed Microsoft Office or Microsoft's Internet
Explorer Web browser will have "Windows" fonts installed on their systems. If you specify the fonts
"Georgia, Times" in your font definitions, many Macintosh users will see their text set in Georgia, just
as Windows users do.
Also note in the relative font sizes example on the preceding page that although "Trebuchet" and
"Trebuchet MS" are basically the same typeface, the exact name you specify in the font list matters. If
you want both Macintosh and Windows users to see the typeface Trebuchet, then use both names in your
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