browser fonts : Java Glossary

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browser fonts

You can see how well your browser supports various fonts by examining this list. The fonts that are supported will look different from the default tall spindly Modern font. You can also examine the list of supported font names in the FontShower Applet. All you have to do is install more fonts in the Control Panel to make the fonts available to HTML. Unfortunately, others may not have those same fonts installed. There is no way to include licenced fonts with your HTML document. Beware, even with the same fonts installed, different browsers, particularly IE, may render them quite differently especially for the unusual characters.

Most modern fonts are designed to work with anti-aliasing and look flea-bitten without it. This is why the same font can look spectacular in Vista and wretched in W2K.

Available Windows Fonts	PostScript Fonts
Bundled Fonts	Proportional Fonts
Commonly Installed Fonts	Sans Serif Fonts
Default CSS Fonts	Title Fonts
Free Fonts	TrueType Fonts
Java Logical Fonts	Vista Fonts
Macintosh OS X Fonts	Windows XP Fonts
Monospace Fonts	More about Fonts
Monospaced Programmer Fonts	Links
MS Office and Publisher Fonts

What Fonts Are Available Windows

To see what fonts are available to Windows, click Start ⇒ Control Panel ⇒ Appearance and Personalization ⇒ Fonts . These fonts will work in Windows word processors and many Windows programs including browsers. Not all of the fonts will work in Java, or Java Applets however. To find out the name of the corresponding file in C:\Windows, right click Properties.

acquiring fonts
Adobe Type Manager
anti-aliasing
BitStream MyFonts
browsershots
Bundled Fonts
Canvas
Character
Codestyle.org’s Font Popularity Statistics
Commonly Installed Fonts
CSS
Default CSS fonts
DPCustomMono2: a proofreading font
dynamic fonts
encoding
Font Classifications
Font Doctor
font finder student project
Font Reserve font manager
Font selectors in HTML
font.com
FontMetrics
Fonts
fonts available to Java on your machine
Fonts in CSS style sheets
FontSaver to reduce RAM usage by Java fonts
FontShower Student Project
FontShower: display fonts in various sizes and colours without and without anti-aliasing
FOP
Free Fonts
Globally enabling anti-aliased fonts
Hershey Fonts (platform independent and rotatable)
HTML cheat sheet
icon
Java Logical Fonts
Keith Devens’ list of programmer fonts
ligature
logical fonts
Luc Devroye’s free font list
Macintosh OS X fonts
MICR
Monospaced Fonts
monospaced programmer fonts
MS Office and Publisher Fonts
MyFonts
OpenType
ornament
point
PostScript
PostScript Fonts
Proportional Fonts
Reuters Unicode Test Applet
Segoe: Microsoft’s branding font
Suitcase font manager
Tiresias
Trevor Lowing’s list of programmer fonts
TrueType anti-aliasing
TrueType Fonts
Unicode
Vista Fonts
Webfont browser fonts
WhatTheFont: font recognition service, you provide a scan
XP Fonts

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