Here are some of the fonts that are safe to use in a website 

These are the safest to use

Arial / Helvetica
Times New Roman / Times
Courier New / Courier 


Some fonts that work well cross platform windows or linus or mac

Palatino
Garamond
Bookman
Avant Garde 


Works on Windows and Mac and not on unix machines are 

Verdana
Georgia
Comic Sans MS
Trebuchet MS
Arial Black
Impact 





    

        Times
    

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        Times (also called Times Roman) is the traditional serif font. It is available 
        on Macintosh and Unix computers, and is a core PostScript font. Times was 
        designed for use as newspaper column text. It has a small size, compared to most 
        other fonts.
    


    

        Times New Roman
    

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        Times New Roman is Microsoft's version of Times. It is available on Windows 
        computers, and most Macintosh computers.
    


    Common monospace fonts

    Designed to mimic typewritten output, these fonts are often used when writing 
    code. Courier is the grand-daddy, while most recent OS's have Courier New.


    

        Courier
    

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        Courier is the traditional monospace font. It is available on Macintosh and Unix 
        computers, and is a core PostScript font.
    


    

        Courier New
    

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        Courier New is Microsoft's version of Courier. Most Windows and Macintosh 
        computers will have Courier New.
    


    Less-common sans-serif fonts

    Verdana is popular, but still new to the scene. Tahoma's style is half-way 
    between Verdana and Arial. Comic Sans MS is often liked for its informal feel. 
    Avante Garde is big and spacious. Impact and Arial Black are both designed for 
    titles and headings. All of the fonts in this section suffer from the problem 
    that most Unix machines don't have the fonts.


    

        Verdana
    

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        From around 2000 until mid-2002, Microsoft distributed a set of Web-optimized 
        fonts, for free use. They have stopped allowing downloads, but still ship the 
        fonts with Windows. Verdana is a sans-serif replacement. Its lowercase letters 
        are very large, compared to the overall size of the font, which makes text easy 
        to read on the web.
    
    

        Unfortunately, the stretching of Verdana lowercase letters has two drawbacks. 
        One issue is that the stretched letters don't look quite right when 
        printed—compare them to Arial, for example. The other problem is that some 
        people don't have the Verdana font, and these people may have trouble reading a 
        web page that uses Verdana. The problem is that while 9 pt Verdana is readable, 
        9 pt Arial is not readable, and a person who doesn't have Verdana will probably 
        have their web browser choose Arial as the substitute font.
    


    

        Tahoma
    

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        Tahoma is another of Microsoft's web fonts. It is not as widely available as 
        Verdana or Arial are.
    


    

        Arial Black
    

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        Arial Black is a version of Arial designed for headlines.
    


    

        Comic Sans MS
    

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        Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif font with a soft, rounded style.
    


    

        Impact
    

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        Impact is a Microsoft Web font, designed for headlines.
    


    

        Avant Garde
    

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        Avant Garde or Century Gothic. HP Printers call this Avant Garde Gothic.
    


    Less-common serif fonts

    Georgia is a web-optimized serif font, but is still a newcomer. Palatino is as 
    old and established as Times is, but
    looks terrible on 
    recent Unix systems. Century Schoolbook, Garamond, and Bookman seem to be 
    available on Unix systems, but I am not sure how widespread they are on 
    Windows/Mac systems.


    

        Georgia
    

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        Georgia is a Microsoft Web font. It has serifs but also has large lowercase 
        letters, similar to Verdana. It is a nicely readable screen font, but has the 
        same problems that Verdana does: it looks bad when printed, and paged designed 
        for Georgia will look bad if rendered in Times, because of the difference in 
        letter size.
    


    

        Palatino
    

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        Palatino is a less-commonly used serif font. It is available on Macintosh and 
        Unix computers, and is a core PostScript font. It is available on Windows 
        computers under alternate font names.
    
    

        Palatino was originally designed as a display font—for example, to be used in 
        lettering on signs. Nevertheless, it is commonly used to set body text.
    


    

        Bookman
    

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        Bookman, also called Bookman Old Style. Not shipped with WinXP. Shipped with MS 
        Office 2000.
    


    

        Garamond
    

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        Garamond. There are a lot of variants of this font. Not shipped with WinXP.
    


    

        Century Schoolbook
    

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        Century Schoolbook is a core postscript font. You cannot rely on its being 
        present on Windows computers. Not shipped with WinXP.
    


    Less-common monospace fonts

    Andale Mono is similar to Verdana and Georgia; it is a new font, not widespread, 
    and not available on Unix or on some Windows computers.


    

        Andale Mono
    

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        Andale Mono is yet another Microsoft's monospace typeface. It has some 
        resemblance to Monaco. Not shipped with WinXP.