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- basye, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30Comic Sans makes the baby jeebus cry.
- urothane, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13This list is actually useless. As a designer trying to use interesting fonts on a website, I need to know which fonts are most likely to be on every machine regardless of OS. A list that tells me that 98% of MS machines, 97% of Macs and 75% of Linux/Unix machines have Arial installed is much more useful.
- jrapp, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12For those interested, the 5 fonts SnOwie mentioned (in order of awesome to most-awesome) are:
1. Comic Sans
2. Comic Sans Bold
3. Comic Sans Italic
4. Comic Sans Underline
and 5. Comic Sans Bold-Italic-Underline - Orion682, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Seems to have gone down
Mirror:
http://duggmirror.com/design/Top_40_font_survey_re ... - jhourcle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5it's because it's the top 40 of the combined list, and none of the unix fonts made the top 40 ... you'll have to go to the full list, to see those. (highest one was "Nimbus Mono L" at 84.84%)
Of course, I have no idea how they gathered their samples ... and as the sampling goes back 6+ years, it might not be a good representation of the current state of machines. - birdieb23, on 10/13/2007, -0/+5good example of how to be a jackass
- rcook, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I took their data and computed a weighted average for each font. Here are the top results from my sheet.
Arial Black - 94.0%
Arial - 93.5%
Verdana - 92.4%
Courier New - 92.3%
Comic Sans MS - 91.8%
Impact - 90.4%
Trebuchet MS - 90.2%
Georgia - 87.1%
Tahoma - 83.6%
Times New Roman - 81.8%
Arial Narrow - 81.8%
Lucida Sans - 72.1%
Century Gothic - 70.4%
Weighting of:
Windows - 12x (70.6%)
Mac - 4x (23.5%)
Unix - 1x (5.9%) - swisstone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It made cry when I didn't have to scroll down to see it; before gems like Times New Roman and Gill Sans.
Ban Comic sans! - SnOwie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Only 5 of them are useful in designing interfaces / websites.
No mater how many people have it, some fonts you just don't use... - Sunnz, on 10/13/2007, -0/+2Yea but it imagine you made a huge web-site it is going to be a pain to update in the future when 99% internet are not Windows.
- uuhclem, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Useless, and amazingly it actually seems wrong, since 'default' installs of windows and or mac come with particular fonts, I wouldn't pay any attention to this - what the hell is "Sylfaen" and more people have "Arial Black" than "Arial". Apparently spec "Franklin Gothic Medium" over "Times New Roman" - seriously, was any fact checking involved?
- allenjd, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1It would be on 95% of Mac systems (it's the default monospace font for OS X) which is what the page is saying. If you look at the WIndows only page it doesn't show up.
- dsm88, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I only ever use 2 fonts: BitStream Vera Sans for the GNOME UI, Firefox, other GUI apps. etc. and BitStream Vera Sans Mono for everything else (terminals, vi, text apps and of course - printing)
I set Firefox to ignore all others fonts and just use them two. - sancho320, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Now that's the kind of dedication that makes digg the best online community around!
- resplence, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Such as...?
- urothane, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Now that would be better data. Of course we still have no idea if their data is actually accurate. The thing disappointing thing is that it remains your best option to design with the Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif grouping.
- Numfar28, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Agreed. I'm hoping some excellent digger will soon post a link to such a list.
- RockinRoel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'll make a guess...
Trebuchet MS, Arial (Helvetica, before Arial in the family), Verdana, Lucida (Grande, Sans Unicode), don't know.
Those are fonts I frequent. I often look on http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts ... for equivalents. - kitwaites, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_We ...
Just a shame MS discontinued it. - lougoose, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Times New Roman is only 89%?
- PJBovoNox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I call *****. 'Monaco' is installed on 95% of machines? Yeah, right.
- srg13, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Helvetica ftw...
Arial is just a cheap copy - oddworld19, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3theres no unix on there....
- sancho320, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What the hell could that possibly even mean? Please, explain it to me.
- Sunnz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Does not load.
- occupant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Yep. I need to know the lowest common denominator of a given font. I think all of those listed are default system fonts - just make a list of what the default fonts are on the various OS's. Whichever exist on all are the only ones to use safely. No one I know who isn't a designer installs real fonts. Sure they have Kama Sutra, but I'm not coding Bangbrothers.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1http://www.helveticafilm.com/
- Desco, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1AriaI is avvfuI.
- gdfwilliams, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3http://duggmirror.com/design/Top_40_font_survey_re ...
- sjuraud, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Dumbest effen article ever. Almost all of these fonts come pre-installed in Windows and on a Mac.
- dtele, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3DUGG - interesting and useful :)
- OutThisLife, on 10/10/2007, -9/+5Arial FTW.
- hamidrezan, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4it's a useful list for web-designers. thanks ;)
- nanhenahata, on 10/10/2007, -8/+0awesome niz...really a good submit
- SourceClosed, on 10/13/2007, -21/+1Just design your websites for Windows computers and you'll cover 99% of all computer users the world over. No need to worry what fonts are present on Unix or Mac computers.
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