Web Design Font Families

Dreamweaver defines a series of font variations for use during web development. I assume that the predefined sets are in place because these are the most commonly found fonts across various platforms, and these should render well. Dreamweaver defines fallback fonts in the case that the first defined font is not available. For example, in the first set of sans-serif fonts, if Arial is not available, Helvetica is used. If Helvetica is not available, the system default sans-serif font is used. This page is up for my own design purposes, but since I went through the trouble of making it, I figure I might as well share with the rest of the world. For each font-family there are three tables, one that displays the fonts with no additional properties, and one each that displays bold, italic, and bold-italic.

• Arial
• Times
• Courier
• Georgia
• Verdanna
• Geneva

This is not an all encompassing list of what is available. In fact, it's really only a list of what I have available in DW MX 2004 - which isn't the current version, but from what I can remember, the list hasn't changed in several versions. I'll post links to other resources if this page gets any traffic, or I get some positive feedback. For now, it's simplistic and it suits my needs just fine.

Arial

Times

Courier

Georgia

Verdanna

Geneva

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