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I am typographically illiterate, but tinkering with design on the Internet often requires a font stack. So what’s a font-know-nothing to do?

Unit Verse made  a list of typography snob approved font stacks, and I gave each font name a font stack of itself and Wingdings.  If you have the font, you see it; if you don’t, you see Wingdings.  So find one you like, copy, and paste.

Better CSS Font Stacks via Smashing Magazine

p – balanced for paragraphs or body copy
t – balanced for headlines or titles

Arial, “Helvetica Neue”, Helvetica, sans-serif – p, t
Baskerville, “Times New Roman”, Times, serif – p
Baskerville, Times, “Times New Roman”, serif – t
Cambria, Georgia, Times, “Times New Roman”, serif – p, t
“Century Gothic”, “Apple Gothic”, sans-serif – p, t
Consolas, “Lucida Console”, Monaco, monospace – p, t
“Copperplate Light”, “Copperplate Gothic Light”, serif – p, t
“Courier New”, Courier, monospace – p, t
“Franklin Gothic Medium”, “Arial Narrow Bold”, Arial, sans-serif – p, t
Futura, “Century Gothic”, AppleGothic, sans-serif – p, t
Garamond, “Hoefler Text”, Times New Roman, Times, serif – p
Garamond, “Hoefler Text”, Palatino, “Palatino Linotype”, serif – t
Geneva, “Lucida Sans”, “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, Verdana, sans-serif – p
Geneva, Verdana, “Lucida Sans”, “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, sans-serif – t
Georgia, Palatino, “Palatino Linotype”, Times, “Times New Roman”, serif – p
Georgia, Times, “Times New Roman”, serif – t
“Gill Sans”, Calibri, “Trebuchet MS”, sans-serif – p
“Gill Sans”, “Trebuchet MS”, Calibri, sans-serif – t
“Helvetica Neue”, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif – p
Helvetica, “Helvetica Neue”, Arial, sans-serif – t
Impact, Haettenschweiler, “Arial Narrow Bold”, sans-serif – p, t
“Lucida Sans”, “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, sans-serif – p, t
Palatino, “Palatino Linotype”, Georgia, Times, “Times New Roman”, serif – p
Palatino, “Palatino Linotype”, “Hoefler Text”, Times, “Times New Roman”, serif – t
Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana – p
Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva – t
Times, “Times New Roman”, Georgia, serif – p, t
“Trebuchet MS”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans”, Arial, sans-serif – p
“Trebuchet MS”, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif – t
Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif – p
Verdana, Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif – t