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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 most common fonts

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 Monaco font than Windows systems have Trebuchet MS.

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Most common fonts on all systems to 6 June 2009
Platform and font name Installed (%) Sample Image
Windows Microsoft Sans Serif 99.62% 99.62% Sample Image
Windows Verdana 98.28% 98.28% Sample Image
Windows Arial Black 98.07% 98.07% Sample Image
Windows Arial 97.98% 97.98% Sample Image
Windows Courier New 97.82% 97.82% Sample Image
Windows Palatino Linotype 97.82% 97.82% Sample Image
Windows Tahoma 97.82% 97.82% Sample Image
Windows Franklin Gothic Medium 97.68% 97.68% Sample Image
Windows Lucida Console 97.65% 97.65% Sample Image
Mac Monaco 97.61% 97.61% Sample Image
Windows Impact 97.56% 97.56% Sample Image
Windows Comic Sans MS 97.48% 97.48% Sample Image
Windows Trebuchet MS 97.44% 97.44% Sample Image
Mac Courier 97.21% 97.21% Sample Image
Mac Helvetica 96.81% 96.81% Sample Image
Mac Arial 96.61% 96.61% Sample Image
Windows Lucida Sans Unicode 96.14% 96.14% Sample Image
Windows Georgia 95.88% 95.88% Sample Image
Unix URW Chancery L 95.73% 95.73% Sample Image
Windows Sylfaen 95.49% 95.49% Sample Image
Mac Verdana 95.22% 95.22% Sample Image
Mac Arial Black 94.82% 94.82% Sample Image
Unix URW Gothic L 94.59% 94.59% Sample Image
Unix Century Schoolbook L 94.02% 94.02% Sample Image
Mac Geneva 94.02% 94.02% Sample Image
Unix Nimbus Mono L 94.02% 94.02% Sample Image
Mac Georgia 93.82% 93.82% Sample Image
Mac Lucida Grande 93.82% 93.82% Sample Image
Mac Helvetica Neue 93.77% 93.77% Sample Image
Mac Trebuchet MS 93.43% 93.43% Sample Image
Windows Times New Roman 92.82% 92.82% Sample Image
Unix URW Bookman L 92.59% 92.59% Sample Image
Mac Times New Roman 92.23% 92.23% Sample Image
Unix DejaVu Sans Mono 92.09% 92.09% Sample  
Unix URW Palladio L 91.45% 91.45% Sample Image
Mac Gill Sans 91.44% 91.44% Sample Image
Mac Comic Sans MS 91.43% 91.43% Sample Image
Mac Courier New 91.43% 91.43% Sample Image
Mac Futura 91.04% 91.04% Sample Image
Mac Times 90.64% 90.64% Sample Image

These are only the top forty fonts, see the full combined font survey results (about 150 KB) for a complete listing.

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