A survey of installed fonts

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In my previous entry I wanted to "typeset" the blockquote from the newspaper article in a typewriter-like font.

I knew that since (sadly) many readers might be stuck using non-OS X systems, most would not have the ITC American Typewriter font installed.

But what typewriter-ish fonts would they have? Ideally I'd like something better than a fixed-width courier...

A bit of surfing turned up Code Style's very interesting cross-platform font survey.

Some highlights:

Operating System Most prolific font %
Macintosh Helvetica 96.55%
Unix & Linux Courier 91.11%
Windows Arial Black* 95.18%
(* which surprisingly narrowly beats out Comic Sans by 1.19%...)  

—Michael A. Cleverly

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