CSS: Common Web Fonts

By Xah Lee. Date: 2007-10-30. Last updated: 2026-01-10.

Here is a list of fonts that are available across Microsoft Windows, Mac, linux, or a Metrically Compatible Font is available and automatically substituted on these operating systems.

Standard Serif Font

Times New Roman
ABCDEFG HIJKLMN OPQRST UVWXYZ
abcdefg hijklmn opqrst uvwxyz.
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Times New Roman: Year 1932. On Mac/Windows since 1990s.
Liberation Serif: Linux. 2007
Tinos: Google. 2013

Standard Sans-Serif Font

Arial
ABCDEFG HIJKLMN OPQRST UVWXYZ
abcdefg hijklmn opqrst uvwxyz.
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Helvetica: Year 1957. On Mac since 1980s.
Arial: Year 1992. Microsoft clone, since Windows 3.1.
Liberation Sans: 2007. Linux.
Arimo: Google, ~2013

Standard Monospace Font

Courier New
ABCDEFG HIJKLMN OPQRST UVWXYZ
abcdefg hijklmn opqrst uvwxyz.
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Courier New: 1992. Windows 3.1.
Liberation Mono: Linux. 2007
Cousine: Google, 2013

Default Monospace Font

Microsoft

Lucida Console from year 2000 to 2011.
Consolas from 2007.
Cascadia Mono from 2019. Open Source.

Apple

Menlo since 2009

SF Mono (since 2015. but for Apple Inc use only.)

Standard Emoji Fonts

😃 😄 😅 🤣 😂

Microsoft: Segoe UI Emoji
Apple: Apple Color Emoji
Google: Noto Color Emoji

Emoji: Faces 😄

Standard Unicode Symbol Fonts

√ ∛ ∜ × ÷ ± ∓ ≈ ≠ ∑ ∫ ∮ ∂ ′ ″ ⊕ ⊗ ⊙

Microsoft: Segoe UI Symbol
Apple: Apple Symbols
Google: Noto Sans Symbols

Unicode: Math Symbols ∑ ∫ π² ∞

Font screenshot