An easy way to maintain these necessary system fonts and be certain they are always on or activated is to create a font set in ATM. We named our set "always leave these on"— can't miss THAT!

For more info on using Adobe Type Manager, visit our resource page for publishers.

System Fonts

These fonts are needed to operate your computer, so do not turn them off or deactivate them when you preflight desktop publishing jobs.

Windows (all TrueType or OpenType/TrueType)

Adobe Sans MM (used to read Adobe Acrobat PDFs)
Adobe Serif MM (used to read Adobe Acrobat PDFs)
Arial, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic
Courier New, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic
Courier 10,12,15
MS Outlook
MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24
MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24
MT Extra
SerialNumber
Small Fonts
Symbol
Symbol 8,10,12,14,18,24
Times New Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic
WingDings

Optional fonts used by web browsers

CommonBullets
Georgia
Monotype Sorts
Tahoma, Italic, Bold
Verdana, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic
Webdings

Macintosh (all TrueType)

Used by both the computer and web browsers

Adobe Sans MM (used to read Adobe Acrobat PDFs)
Adobe Serif MM (used to read Adobe Acrobat PDFs)
Courier
Geneva
Helvetica
Symbol
Times
Zapf Dingbats

 

Link to a informational page from Microsoft, noting, "In February 1996 we announced our plans to extend font support to the World Wide Web. The articles in this section explain our strategy, and show how anyone can add font support to their Web pages today using Cascading Style Sheets and the FONT FACE tag."

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