HTML - Fonts Reference

Fonts are specific to platform. You will have different look and feel of a web page on different machines running different operating systems like Windows, Linux or Mac iOS. Here we are giving a list of fonts which are available in various operating systems.

HTML <font> tag is deprecated in version 4.0 onwards and now all fonts are set by using CSS. Here is the simple syntax of setting font of a body of web page.

body {
   font-family: "new century schoolbook";
}  
or  
<body style = "font-family:new century schoolbook;">

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

   <head>
      <title>Font Setting Using CSS</title>
   </head>

   <body>
      <p>Change any of the style and try it.</p>
      <div style = "font-family:verdana;">This is demo for font family</div>
      <br />
      
      <div style = "font-size:120%;">This is demo for font size</div>
      <br />
      
      <div style = "font-size:14pt;">This is demo for font size</div>
   </body>

</html>

This will produce the following result −

Fonts for Microsoft Systems

Font	Font	Font
Andale Mono	Arial	Arial Bold
Arial Italic	Arial Bold Italic	Arial Black
Comic Sans MS	Comic Sans MS Bold	Courier New
Courier New Bold	Courier New Italic	Courier New Bold Italic
Georgia	Georgia Bold	Georgia Italic
Georgia Bold Italic	Impact	Lucida Console
Lucida Sans Unicode	Marlett	Minion Web
Symbol	Times New Roman	Times New Roman Bold
Times New Roman Italic	Times New Roman Bold Italic	Tahoma
Trebuchet MS	Trebuchet MS Bold	Trebuchet MS Italic
Trebuchet MS Bold Italic	Verdana	Verdana Bold
Verdana Italic	Verdana Bold Italic	Webdings

You can check example fonts here − Microsoft Fonts Examples

Fonts for Macintosh Systems

Following is the list of fonts supported by Macintosh System 7 and higher versions

Font	Font	Font
American Typewriter	Andale Mono	Apple Chancery
Arial	Arial Black	Brush Script
Baskerville	Big Caslon	Comic Sans MS
Copperplate	Courier New	Gill Sans
Futura	Herculanum	Impact
Lucida Grande	Marker Felt	Optima
Trebuchet MS	Verdana	Webdings
Palatino	Symbol	Times
Osaka	Papyrus	Times New Roman
Textile	Zapf Dingbats	Zapfino
Techno	Hoefler Text	Skia
Hoefler Text Ornaments	Capitals	Charcoal
Gadget	Sand

You can check example fonts here − Mac Fonts Examples

Fonts for Unix Systems

Following is the list of fonts supported by most Unix System variants

Font	Font	Font
Charter	Clean	Courier
Fixed	Helvetica	Lucida
Lucida bright	Lucida Typewriter	New Century Schoolbook
Symbol	Terminal	Times
Utopia

You can check example fonts here − Unix Fonts Examples

HTML ASCII Codes

There are 2⁷ = 128 printable characters which can be represented by different 7-BIT ASCII codes. Another set of characters are not for HTML representation but they are devised to control hardware.

Following tables list down all the 7-BIT ASCII codes and their equivalent HTML Entity Codes.

If you want to see equivalent HEX, OCT and extended set of ASCII codes then check next chapter.

7-BIT Printable ASCII Characters

ASCII Characters	Description	HTML Entity Codes
	space
!	exclamation mark	!
"	quotation mark	"
#	number sign	#
$	dollar sign	$
%	percent sign	%
&	ampersand	&
'	apostrophe	'
(	left parenthesis	(
)	right parenthesis	)
*	asterisk	*
+	plus sign	+
,	comma	,
-	hyphen	-
.	period	.
/	slash	/
0	digit 0	0
1	digit 1	1
2	digit 2	2
3	digit 3	3
4	digit 4	4
5	digit 5	5
6	digit 6	6
7	digit 7	7
8	digit 8	8
9	digit 9	9
:	colon	:
;	semicolon	;
<	less-than	<
=	equals-to	=
>	greater-than	>
?	question mark	?
@	at sign	@
A	uppercase A	A
B	uppercase B	B
C	uppercase C	C
D	uppercase D	D
E	uppercase E	E
F	uppercase F	F
G	uppercase G	G
H	uppercase H	H
I	uppercase I	I
J	uppercase J	J
K	uppercase K	K
L	uppercase L	L
M	uppercase M	M
N	uppercase N	N
O	uppercase O	O
P	uppercase P	P
Q	uppercase Q	Q
R	uppercase R	R
S	uppercase S	S
T	uppercase T	T
U	uppercase U	U
V	uppercase V	V
W	uppercase W	W
X	uppercase X	X
Y	uppercase Y	Y
Z	uppercase Z	Z
[	left square bracket	[
\	backslash	\
]	right square bracket	]
^	caret	^
_	underscore	_
`	grave accent	`
a	lowercase a	a
b	lowercase b	b
c	lowercase c	c
d	lowercase d	d
e	lowercase e	e
f	lowercase f	f
g	lowercase g	g
h	lowercase h	h
i	lowercase i	i
j	lowercase j	j
k	lowercase k	k
l	lowercase l	l
m	lowercase m	m
n	lowercase n	n
o	lowercase o	o
p	lowercase p	p
q	lowercase q	q
r	lowercase r	r
s	lowercase s	s
t	lowercase t	t
u	lowercase u	u
v	lowercase v	v
w	lowercase w	w
x	lowercase x	x
y	lowercase y	y
z	lowercase z	z
{	left curly brace	{
\|	vertical bar	\|
}	right curly brace	}
~	tilde	~

7-BIT ASCII Device Control Characters

ASCII Characters	Description	HTML Entity Codes
NUL	null character
SOH	start of header
STX	start of text
ETX	end of text
EOT	end of transmission
ENQ	enquiry
ACK	acknowledge
BEL	bell (ring)
BS	backspace
HT	horizontal tab
LF	line feed
VT	vertical tab
FF	form feed
CR	carriage return
SO	shift out
SI	shift in
DLE	data link escape
DC1	device control 1
DC2	device control 2
DC3	device control 3
DC4	device control 4
NAK	negative acknowledge
SYN	synchronize
ETB	end transmission block
CAN	cancel
EM	end of medium
SUB	substitute
ESC	escape
FS	file separator
GS	group separator
RS	record separator
US	unit separator
DEL	delete (rubout)

Previous Page Print Page Next Page