HTML has no fonts of its own — it has to rely on fonts available on the local computer.  A HTML-page may define a preferred font to display the text.  However, that font may not be available on the local computer.  Therefore the HTML page (or related style sheet) can define a list of fonts in decreasing order of preference (see HTML & Style summary).  The browser should try to match the preferred fonts list to the fonts available on the local computer.  To assure a match, the list should include a 'generic' font.
Note that in this page the preference list is not used.

To facilitate comparison, various font families popular on Windows are provided below.  To check readability, the digit 0 is presented next to the upper and lowercase letter O, the digit 1 next to the upper and lowercase letters I and L.  And the Euro-sign is provided (known problem case).  Note that correct representation of symbols depends on their presence in the font selected on the local computer.
See also HTML Characters – Representation of Glyphs.

 

Default (usually corresponds to Times Roman) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €
Serif (generic) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €	Sans-serif (generic) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €
Times New Roman ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €	Arial ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €
Century Schoolbook ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €	Futura Book ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €
Lucida Unicode ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €	Lucida sans Unicode ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €
Cursive (generic) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €	Comic Sans MS ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €
Fantasy (generic) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €	Tahoma ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €
Script ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €	Verdana ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €
Symbol ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €
Monospace (generic) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €	Courier (monospace) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0oOQ() 1iIlL| €

 

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