Global Nav Open Menu Global Nav Close Menu; Apple; Shopping Bag +. Segoe (/ ˈ s iː ɡ oʊ / SEE-goh) is a typeface, or family of fonts, that is best known for its use by Microsoft.The company uses Segoe in its online and printed marketing materials, including recent logos for a number of products. Additionally, the Segoe UI font sub-family is used by numerous Microsoft applications, and may be installed by applications (such as Microsoft Office 2007.
What fonts can you assume Windows users will have? Mac users? And how about (gulp!) Linux & other UNIX users? Oh, & don't forget mobile users: iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), Android, & Windows Phone 7!
One answer can be found at Code Style Font Sampler, which asks visitors to fill out a survey asking them about the fonts they have on their computers. You should take the results with a grain of salt, as the results are biased in favor of users who:
Still, it provides some useful results. Go take a look & it'll give you some numbers you can work with.
Various resources also exist that give web developers some hard numbers & lists they can use when determining the fonts available on various operating systems.
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The following fonts have served as the default system fonts on Windows:
The number of typefaces & fonts Microsoft includes with Windows has been steadily increasing. First a table:
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For more info:
Wikipedia’s “List of typefaces included with Microsoft Windows” lists fonts included with Windows 3.1–10.
In addition to these, you should also check out Microsoft's “Fonts and Products”, which lists fonts supplied not only with Microsoft’s products, but also included in UNIX, Mac OS X, & Adobe products.
Mac OS X/OS X/macOS
Apple has a page detailing System Fonts for macOS & iOS.
Diablo 2 download free mac. The following fonts have served as the default system fonts on macOS:
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The number of typefaces & fonts Apple includes with Mac OS X/OS X/macOS has varied. First a table:
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And now a detailed breakdown:
Some interesting info is at Unicode fonts for Macintosh OS X computers.
UNIX & Linux
There are hundreds of different UNIX variants out there (Linux itself is one, and there are hundreds of variants of Linux!), so saying with certainty what fonts are safe to assume are on any particular user's UNIX box is difficult. Fortunately, even though there are hundreds of UNIX flavors, there are only a few that make up the majority of desktop use.
Fedora 29: 59 typefaces & 300 fonts installed28
Ubuntu Server28
For more, see Fonts supplied with UNIX / XFree and GhostScript.
iOS
The following fonts have served as the default system fonts on iOS:
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When the iPad came out, it had more fonts on it than did the iPhone. Apple has since rectified that, & it's my guess that it will continue to make sure both devices have the same number of fonts on them.
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Android is a bit more complicated, because while it doesn't include very many built in fonts, apps can bundle whatever fonts they want (note that this is now true for Apple's iOS as of version 4; however, since iOS also comes with over 50 built in fonts, most apps don't need to include their own).
Android versions 1 through 3 (code names: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, & Honeycomb) included only 3 fonts:
You can read more about Droid:
Starting with version 4 of Android (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich), Google introduced a new standard font: Roboto. Here are some webpages about Roboto:
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Windows Phone 7 out of the box supports 16 fonts, including those in Core Fonts for the Web plus a few others. If you do not specify
font-family , Segoe WP is used by default. However, like Android & iOS, developers can embed their own fonts in their apps if they desire.
If you’re looking for my comments on Microsoft’s Core Fonts for the Web (Andalé Mono, Arial, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, & Webdings) & Microsoft’s ClearType Font Collection (Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel), see My Thoughts on Fonts.
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