Screen Typefaces
Web safe for Mac and PC
• Arial
• Courier New
• Georgia – designed by Matthew Carter
• Times New Roman
• Trebuchet MS – designed by Vincent Connare
• Verdana – designed by Matthew Carter
Additional web safe fonts
Mac: Helvetica and Lucida Grande.
PC: Microsoft Sans Serif, Impact, Lucida Console and Lucida Sans Unicode and Tahoma.
Microsoft Vista ‘C’ typefaces
These typefaces were commissioned and designed specifically to ease reading from screen and ship exclusively with the Microsoft Vista OS. They are available to use in all applications on a PC running Vista. They can also be licensed from Ascender.
• Calibri – designed by Lucas de Groot
• Cambria – designed by Jelle Bosma, Monotype
• Candara – designed by Gary Munch
• Corbel – designed by Jeremy Tankard
• Consolas – designed by Lucas de Groot
• Constantia – designed by John Hudson
• Segoe – Vista UI font, originally designed by Steve Matteson
• Segoe TV – version adapted for TV by Ascender
Adobe Web Type Pro
This collection features 12 Adobe Originals typefaces optimized for easy on-screen viewing.
• Caflisch script – designed by Robert Slimbach
• Giddyup – designed by Laurie Szujewska
• Mezz – designed by Michael Harvey
• Myriad – designed by Carol Twombly and Robert Slimbach
• Minion – designed by Robert Slimbach
• Penumbra – designed by Lance Hidy
Pixel or Alias Fonts
• Unibody – designed by Underware
• Minifonts – huge range of fonts, site is run by Joe Gillespie.
• Miniml – range of fonts designed by Craig Kroeger.
• Orgdot – free downloadable fonts by Norwegian web company.
Game Fonts
Convection – custom fonts for the Xbox 360, designed by Ascender.
Mobile fonts
Nokia Sans – designed by Erik Speikerman in 2001.
FF Call – a package of over 70 fonts from a dozen brands of cellular phones, designed by three designers Maik Ignaszak, Stefan Kisters, and Astrid Scheuerhorst. Each design comes in three versions: Regular, Italic and Negative, plus Expert Sets.