Thanks to cross-browser webfont support, it's been quite some time since I've read the words "web safe fonts". I wonder how useful these lists would be in a year or two. It's already nearly useless on a vanilla Ubuntu install, for example, which contains neither Windows fonts nor Mac fonts.
It would be a fine day indeed when web designers no longer have to worry about fallback fonts that look nothing like the preferred font.
I got so fed up with browsers and their font issues. That I just use one now, that I can read easily at a good size. I override the author's choice everytime.
"Fantasy"? That's absurd. Copperplate is a letterpress type. Papyrus, meanwhile, is a joke, but it's meant to look like bush strokes; it's hardly fantastic.
I would like to see the information about the support visible, rather than hidden under a mouseover. Maybe 2 thin horizontal bars where length = %, 1 for Mac, 1 for PC?
It gets in the way as soon as the browser window is less than 1287px in width. Did I mess up my measurement or is this really 1287px? My browser is rarely that wide.
I get confused with font stacks that have sequences like:
Calibri, Candara, Segoe, "Segoe UI", etc. etc.
Are there systems that do not have Calibri but do have Candara or Segoe UI? (Excluding, of course, cases where some of these fonts have been installed manually and individually.) I would suppose not. If so, then what’s the point of specifying Candara, Segoe, and Segoe UI after Calibri?
Segoe ships with some MS products (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe). I think the 'C' fonts are more tied to Windows releases (Vista and 7, probably 8, too)
So, I guess you can find Segoe UI but not Calibri on a XP system with a relatively (but maybe not too) modern Office. Maybe there are other requirements (newer IEs might install the 'C' fonts, too)
I would love to see a similar list for non-Latin scripts. I'm particularly interested to know what a 'safe-stack' is for CJK characters. Anyone out there know?
Nice resource though, even if 'web-safe' isn't the strait-jacket it used to be. :)