Fonts are an essential part of web design and can make or break the look and functionality of your website, thus it's important. It's fascinating to note that fonts are much more than just putting text on a web page or for context; there's a lot more to fonts that defines how we can use them.
At first glance, you may not associate the relevance of fonts to your design until you actually begin to create. The font that you choose for your heading, for example, must have a certain style, spacing, legibility, texture, load time, and so on.
In this article, we will go through "Web Safe Fonts." If you haven't heard of web-safe fonts before, it's probably the last thing that would come to mind and if you have heard about it but haven't had the opportunity to go over the basics, we'll go over the fundamentals with you. Before delving into the definition, we may discover the meaning of web safe fonts by examining each term.
Let's start with the word:
Safe: This can be described simply as free of error or risk.
Web (World Wide Web): Simply referred to as the Web, is a subset of the Internet that consists of pages that may be browsed using a Web browser.
Let's get started and look at the intriguing topic of web-safe fonts, what distinguishes a web-safe font? And what would happen if you used typefaces that were not web-safe?
What are Web-Safe Fonts?
Web-safe fonts are typefaces that are included on computers or devices regardless of the operating system or machine. Web-safe fonts are pre-installed fonts, they come with computers and are available on a wide range of devices.
Web-safe fonts, as opposed to web fonts, which are fonts specifically produced for websites from an external supplier such as Google Fonts or a site's web hosting, aren't as unique in style, they aren't as artistic, but they are trustworthy with fast load times because they are available on most computers and are common to most devices.
This means that the majority of systems with pre-installed fonts only have a handful in common. For example, a mac os and a windows os both have fonts like TimesNewRoman, Georgia, Arial, and Verdana in common, but they also have pre-installed fonts that aren't shared in common like the mac os with fonts like Futura, Monaco, and Didot and the windows os with pre-installed fonts like Cambria and Consola.
Pros and Cons of Web-Safe Fonts
Pros
Fonts can be adapted to any browser and device and you can continue to use the same HTML text.
Web designers and developers who use these typefaces ensure that the intended font will always display properly on a web page.
Designers may create a rich, personalized look while keeping the text easily modifiable for style and content modifications.
Cons
Limited in variety
Categories Of Web-Safe Fonts
The web-safe fonts we'll be highlighting are divided into different typeface categories: Serif, sans-serif, monospace, cursive, fantasy, and MS fonts:
Serif
Serifs are tiny decorative strokes that stick out from the letter's main body in these typefaces. In physical, printed versions, serif fonts are simpler to read because the serifs direct the viewer's attention from character to character. Times New Roman is one of the serif typefaces.
Sans-serif
Serifs are not present in these typefaces. Because they are easier to read on screens, sans-serif fonts are more commonly used in website copy. A sans-serif typeface is Arial.
Cursive
These fonts are designed to look like human calligraphy, with the letters flowing together. In contrast to block letters, it is often used to make writing speedier.
Monospace
This describes fonts that have uniform character spacing. One-line fonts include Courier.
Fantasy
These are fonts that are highly stylized and beautiful.
