CSS font stacks, developer FAQs & web standards

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Font stack tips

  • Pick a generic font family first.
  • Put preferred fonts above common ones.
  • Add at least one font for each operating system.
  • Minimise fall through to the generic font family.
  • Bookmark your font stack.

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Use the Code Style font stack builder to create robust CSS font-family declarations. The font stack builder shows the probability that your preferred fonts are displayed on Windows, Mac and Linux Web browsers.

Quick start: Build better CSS font stacks

Build a better font stack

Check an existing font stack, add fallback fonts and refine.

Or build a new font stack

Pick a generic font family, add fonts and adjust.

Font stack probabilities are based on data from the Code Style font survey for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Special terms apply to the Nuvola icon theme.

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