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How sure can you be that the font you specify will be present on the end user's machine? This is the latest cross-platform snapshot of the Code Style font survey and should give you greater confidence in selecting a font.
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The table below is a periodically updated listing of font survey results for all platforms, the cumulative total of all valid font survey submissions since April 2005.
These figures are calculated per platform and do not show how common the fonts are on other systems. Think of it this way: More Mac systems have the Helvetica font than Windows systems have Trebuchet MS.
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| Platform and font name | Installed (%) | Sample | Image | ||
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Helvetica | 100.00% |
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Sample | Image |
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Lucida Grande | 100.00% |
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Sample | Image |
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Tahoma | 99.90% |
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Sample | Image |
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Verdana | 99.71% |
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Sample | Image |
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Courier New | 99.66% |
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Sample | Image |
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Microsoft Sans Serif | 99.66% |
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Sample | Image |
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Times New Roman | 99.52% |
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Sample | Image |
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Arial | 99.47% |
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Sample | Image |
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Geneva | 99.46% |
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Sample | Image |
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Monaco | 99.46% |
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Sample | Image |
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Trebuchet MS | 99.33% |
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Sample | Image |
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Lucida Console | 99.18% |
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Sample | Image |
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Comic Sans MS | 99.14% |
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Sample | Image |
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Impact | 98.99% |
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Sample | Image |
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Courier | 98.92% |
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Sample | Image |
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Georgia | 98.89% |
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Sample | Image |
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Lucida Sans Unicode | 98.75% |
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Sample | Image |
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Palatino Linotype | 98.70% |
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Sample | Image |
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Arial Black | 98.37% |
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Sample | Image |
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Franklin Gothic Medium | 98.13% |
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Sample | Image |
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Times | 98.11% |
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Sample | Image |
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Arial | 97.84% |
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Sample | Image |
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Century Schoolbook L | 97.83% |
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Sample | Image |
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Verdana | 97.57% |
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Sample | Image |
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URW Chancery L | 97.52% |
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Sample | Image |
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URW Gothic L | 97.52% |
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Sample | Image |
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URW Bookman L | 97.21% |
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Sample | Image |
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Nimbus Mono L | 96.59% |
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Sample | Image |
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Sylfaen | 95.96% |
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Sample | Image |
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Georgia | 95.95% |
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Sample | Image |
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Helvetica Neue | 95.68% |
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Sample | Image |
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MV Boli | 95.68% |
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Sample | |
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URW Palladio L | 95.67% |
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Sample | Image |
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Times New Roman | 95.14% |
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Sample | Image |
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Estrangelo Edessa | 95.05% |
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Sample | |
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Trebuchet MS | 94.86% |
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Sample | Image |
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Mangal | 94.76% |
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Sample | |
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Tunga | 94.52% |
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Sample | |
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Gautami | 94.47% |
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Sample | |
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Latha | 94.47% |
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Sample | |
These are only the top forty fonts, see the full combined font survey results (about 150 KB) for a complete listing.
These figures are the cumulative total of font survey submissions since April 2007. Older submissions are archived to maintain a 3 year rolling sample. The table shows the average submission rate and totals for each operating system, and the the date the applet-based survey was introduced.
| Survey | Windows | Mac | Linux |
|---|---|---|---|
| Submissions per week | 10 | 2 | 2 |
| Submission sample | 2063 | 379 | 329 |
| Survey applet from | 21 April 2007 | 12 May 2007 | 21 February 2009 |
| Fonts surveyed | 292 | 133 | 102 |
Our main interest is to build reliable font stacks for screen rendering, but CSS allows us to specify a different font stack to print Web pages. The most reliable way to apply print media style sheets is to use the media attribute on the style sheet link element. The selectors you choose and font-family declarations you add to this style sheet will only apply when the page is printed.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/print.css" media="print" />
What font combinations would you choose for print? Use the font stack builder to create a print font stack and submit your ideas.
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