I am working on making my own text editor for my website. This text editor is based upon Microsoft Word 2010 with a similar layout and features. I am currently working on the drop down list for the types of font which you can choose and I would like to know if there is a anywhere on the web safe fonts of which you can use.
Serif Fonts
- Georgia, serif
- "Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif
- "Times New Roman", Times, serif
Sans-Serif Fonts
- Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
- "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif
- "Comic Sans MS", cursive, sans-serif
- Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif
- "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif
- Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif
- "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif
- Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif
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The above content is a preview of some fonts of which you can use, listed on w3schools.com. It lists fonts such as "Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif", of which I do not know what part of this, is the actual font name. On my editor, I would simply like to display a list of most used fonts in a list "Arial, Arial Black, Arial Narrow" and so on. Some of these fonts will not be on safe web fonts and therefore I will have to import the font.
I would like to not only know if there is a better list of web-safe font types your able to have including their simplified name and how to import fonts. Also, regarding importing fonts, once I import them, will they show correctly on all applications/devices?
Best Answer
I would look at Google Web Fonts for something like this:
Google Web Fonts
Hope this helps