# \[Pro\] Question about fonts

**URL:** <https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-question-about-fonts/9751>\
**Category:** Freeway\
**Created:** [December 23, 2010, 10:50am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-question-about-fonts/9751 "2010-12-23T10:50:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin2](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Martin2](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Martin2)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 10:50am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-question-about-fonts/9751/1 "2010-12-23T10:50:14Z")

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I was wondering whether anyone could give me a suggestion about what fonts work best on both Mac and Windows platforms.

I assumed that the limited font selection drop down menu when working with html text in FW contained safe fonts.

Anyway, I set a page with Times, a font I find very readable – the site I’m creating for a friend will have lots of text. It looked fine on the Mac, but then when I looked at it in Windows (Vista) running in my VMWare virtual machine, it didn’t look nearly as good.

I changed it to Helvetica, and it looked fine on both platforms. The problem is that sans serif fonts tend to be harder to read in long passages.

So, I was wondering whether anyone can suggest a safe serif font that usually looks good on both platforms?

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**Author:** ![Michael3](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@Michael3](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Michael3)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-question-about-fonts/9751/2 "2010-12-23T12:11:33Z")

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Try Georgia. I think it looks better on both Mac and Windows for screen display.

Here’s a useful site for comparing screen fonts for use in Web design: [http://www.typetester.org/](http://www.typetester.org/)

Best wishes,  
Michael

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Irvine1](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@Bryan\_Irvine1](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Bryan_Irvine1)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-question-about-fonts/9751/3 "2010-12-23T12:40:20Z")

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Martin,

You might find this Freeway thread of interest [http://goo.gl/hKHcm](http://goo.gl/hKHcm)

Bryan

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**Author:** ![Martin2](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Martin2](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Martin2)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-question-about-fonts/9751/4 "2010-12-23T12:59:40Z")

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Michael, thanks for the suggestion of Georgia. I think it looks great both on the Mac and Windows. I also appreciate the link. That’s a great site.

On Dec 23, 2010, at 7:11 AM, Michael wrote:

> Try Georgia. I think it looks better on both Mac and Windows for screen display.
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> Here’s a useful site for comparing screen fonts for use in Web design: [http://www.typetester.org/](http://www.typetester.org/)
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> Best wishes,  
> Michael
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