The Top Ten Serif Fonts

Friday, 03 October 2008 06:21

The top ten common used web fonts on Windows, Mac and Unix systems. The only serif fonts common to all systems are the ubiquitous Times New RomanGeorgia and , although its frequency on Unix family operating systems is quite low.

The top ten serif fonts on Windows systems.

Font name	Installed (%)
Palatino Linotype	97.5%
Sylfaen	95.3%
Georgia	92.5%
Times New Roman	87.1%
Bookman Old Style	84.4%
Book Antiqua	83.9%
Garamond	79.3%
Perpetua	58.3%
Rockwell	56.0%
Calisto MT	50.6%

The top ten serif fonts on Mac systems.

Font name	Installed (%)
Georgia	93.7%
Times New Roman	90.4%
American Typewriter	89.1%
Hoefler Text	89.0%
Bookman Old Style	84.4%
Baskerville	88.5%
Times	87.8%
Didot	87.3%
Big Caslon	80.3%
Palatino	79.1%

The top ten serif fonts on Linux/Unix systems.

Font name	Installed (%)
Bitstream Charter	90.3%
Century Schoolbook L	88.6%
URW Bookman L	83.5%
URW Palladio L	82.1%
Nimbus Roman No9 L	77.5%
DejaVu Serif Condensed	74.2%
Bitstream Vera Serif	68.5%
Utopia	61.0%
FreeSerif	58.5%
Times New Roman	56.1%