When you build a website, you choose one or two font styles to use for the text and headings.  The font you choose is important because first, you want the visitor to be able to read the website as easily as possible and secondly you want to make sure that the font you use is common for every ones computer system. 

You see, when looking at a web page using your browser, the browser must match the font that you use to an available list of fonts that are installed on your computer.  This can be a problem since the default font list for Windows, Macintosh and Linux systems differ. Not only that, but each version of the operating system has its own set of fonts, which may differ from the next version. For example the list of fonts that come with Windows XP is similar to the list that comes with Vista, but not exactly the same. So your web browser has the chore of selecting the best match. 

So, in a nutshell, web browsers have limitations on the fonts that can be displayed depending on your operating system and what fonts are installed on the computer for the browser to select from.

It is commonly agreed when building a website that you should use a font that the browser will be able to easily match. 

Here are some safe fonts to use. All browsers can safely display:

 Arial, Georgia, Tahoma, Times New Roman, and Verdana.

We recommend using Veranda for the main body text as it is considered the easiest to read, then select your preference of another to use for titles and subtitles and the menu. 

If you type in "Web Safe Fonts" into a search engine you will get a variety of answers. And there are many other fonts you can use that are a safe bet, however the percentage of how safe drops with other fonts, so we recommend using fonts for your web site that have a high percentage for most computers.