# The Definitive Font List

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-definitive-font-list/219349>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [March 15, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-definitive-font-list/219349 "2007-03-15T20:46:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![MMXII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@MMXII](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MMXII)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-definitive-font-list/219349/1 "2007-03-15T20:46:02Z")

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\*\*[COLOR=DarkSlateBlue]“The typographer shouldn’t care too much what kind of fonts he has at his disposal. Actually the choice of fonts shouldn’t be his major concern. He should use what is available at the time and use it the best he can.”[/COLOR]  
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Let’s get down to the nitty gritty. I have inherited several hundred fonts from various employees and free font web sites. Many of these fonts are created for Halloween, Rock bands or other various language characters. I recently was at SXSW where I attened two very interesting panels on Typography.

I was wondering what some of my fellow kirupians favorite fonts for the web are. I plan on clearing out my entire font folder and starting from scratch. Please let me know what you think the defeniative fonts for the web shoule be.

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[SIZE=1]Book Antiqua  
Palatino  
Goudystyle  
Frutiger  
Univers  
Helvetica Nueve[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1] **New Microsoft Fonts**  
Calibri  
Cambria  
Candara  
Constantia  
Corbel[/SIZE]

\*\*Resources

\*\* SmartyPants is a free web publishing plug-in for Movable Type, Blosxom, and BBEdit that easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into “smart” typographic punctuation HTML entities.  
[http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/[URL=“http://webtypography.net/”]](http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/%5BURL=%22http://webtypography.net/%22%5D)

Typography Sucks Power Point from SXSW  
[http://webtypography.net/sxsw2007/](http://webtypography.net/)

Compare Screen Fonts  
[URL=“[http://typetester.maratz.com/](http://typetester.maratz.com/)”][http://typetester.maratz.com/](http://typetester.maratz.com/)

[COLOR=DarkSlateBlue] **The Kirupian Font List** [/COLOR]  
arial  
Baskerville  
Book Antiqua  
Caslon  
Calibri  
Cambria  
Candara  
Constantia  
Corbel  
castorgate  
chancera  
DIN  
eurostile  
emigre  
Frutiger  
Futura  
Geometric 415  
Georgia  
Gill Sans  
Goudystyle  
Helvetica Nueve  
Lucida Grande  
linotype  
myriad  
Myriad Pro  
Neue Helvetica 55 Roman  
Palatino  
Trebuchet MS  
Tahoma  
Univers  
Verdana

[URL=“[http://typetester.maratz.com/](http://typetester.maratz.com/)”]