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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.
FAQ: Can't you show a total frequency for all platforms?
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| Platform and font name | Installed (%) | Sample | Image | ||
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Microsoft Sans Serif | 99.62% |
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Sample | Image |
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Verdana | 98.28% |
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Sample | Image |
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Arial Black | 98.07% |
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Sample | Image |
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Arial | 97.98% |
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Sample | Image |
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Courier New | 97.82% |
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Sample | Image |
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Palatino Linotype | 97.82% |
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Sample | Image |
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Tahoma | 97.82% |
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Sample | Image |
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Franklin Gothic Medium | 97.68% |
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Sample | Image |
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Lucida Console | 97.65% |
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Sample | Image |
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Monaco | 97.61% |
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Sample | Image |
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Impact | 97.56% |
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Sample | Image |
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Comic Sans MS | 97.48% |
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Sample | Image |
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Trebuchet MS | 97.44% |
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Sample | Image |
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Courier | 97.21% |
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Sample | Image |
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Helvetica | 96.81% |
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Sample | Image |
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Arial | 96.61% |
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Sample | Image |
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Lucida Sans Unicode | 96.14% |
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Sample | Image |
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Georgia | 95.88% |
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Sample | Image |
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URW Chancery L | 95.73% |
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Sample | Image |
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Sylfaen | 95.49% |
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Sample | Image |
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Verdana | 95.22% |
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Sample | Image |
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Arial Black | 94.82% |
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Sample | Image |
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URW Gothic L | 94.59% |
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Sample | Image |
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Century Schoolbook L | 94.02% |
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Sample | Image |
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Geneva | 94.02% |
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Sample | Image |
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Nimbus Mono L | 94.02% |
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Sample | Image |
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Georgia | 93.82% |
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Sample | Image |
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Lucida Grande | 93.82% |
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Sample | Image |
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Helvetica Neue | 93.77% |
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Sample | Image |
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Trebuchet MS | 93.43% |
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Sample | Image |
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Times New Roman | 92.82% |
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Sample | Image |
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URW Bookman L | 92.59% |
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Sample | Image |
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Times New Roman | 92.23% |
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Sample | Image |
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DejaVu Sans Mono | 92.09% |
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Sample | |
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URW Palladio L | 91.45% |
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Sample | Image |
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Gill Sans | 91.44% |
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Sample | Image |
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Comic Sans MS | 91.43% |
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Sample | Image |
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Courier New | 91.43% |
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Sample | Image |
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Futura | 91.04% |
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Sample | Image |
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Times | 90.64% |
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Sample | Image |
These are only the top forty fonts, see the full combined font survey results (about 150 KB) for a complete listing.
CSS font family resources
- New: Build better CSS font stacks, a quick start gallery of core Web font family declarations for the font stack builder
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Windows font survey and font survey results
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Mac font survey and font survey results
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Linux font survey and font survey results
- Combined survey results for all platforms
- Classification of the most common fonts by generic font family:
- CSS font family glossary
- Anchor Points: Font foundries & sources
- Sampler font code: Sampler.css
