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
Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 20:09