Other options that usually work cross-platform are:
Palatino
Garamond
Bookman
Avant Garde
Fonts that work on Windows and MacOS but not Unix+X are:
Verdana
Georgia
Comic Sans MS
Trebuchet MS
Arial Black
Impact
Common sans-serif fonts
Helvetica is the granddaddy here, but Arial is more common on
modern OS's.
Helvetica
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Helvetica is a sans-serif font. It is a good choice for short
text, perhaps a paragraph or two in length. Unix and Macintosh
computers have had always had Helvetica, and it is a native font
on PostScript printers.
Arial
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Arial is near-copy of Helvetica, updated slightly. Windows uses
Arial in place of Helvetica.
Common serif fonts
Times is the grand-daddy of serif fonts, but Times New Roman is
more common on recent OS's.
Times
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Times (also called Times Roman) is the traditional serif
font. It is available on Macintosh and Unix computers, and is a
core PostScript font. Times was designed for use as newspaper
column text. It has a small size, compared to most other fonts.
Times New Roman
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Times New Roman is Microsoft's version of Times. It is available
on Windows computers, and most Macintosh computers.
Common monospace fonts
Designed to mimic typewritten output, these fonts are often used
when writing code. Courier is the grand-daddy, while most recent
OS's have Courier New.
Courier
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Courier is the traditional monospace font. It is available on
Macintosh and Unix computers, and is a core PostScript font.
Courier New
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Courier New is Microsoft's version of Courier. Most Windows and
Macintosh computers will have Courier New.
Less-common sans-serif fonts
Verdana is popular, but still new to the scene. Tahoma's style
is half-way between Verdana and Arial. Comic Sans MS is often
liked for its informal feel. Avante Garde is big and spacious.
Impact and Arial Black are both designed for titles and
headings. All of the fonts in this section suffer from the
problem that most Unix machines don't have the fonts.
Verdana
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From around 2000 until mid-2002, Microsoft distributed a set of
Web-optimized fonts, for free use. They have stopped allowing
downloads, but still ship the fonts with Windows. Verdana is a
sans-serif replacement. Its lowercase letters are very large,
compared to the overall size of the font, which makes text easy
to read on the web.
Unfortunately, the stretching of Verdana lowercase letters has
two drawbacks. One issue is that the stretched letters don't
look quite right when printed—compare them to Arial, for
example. The other problem is that some people don't have the
Verdana font, and these people may have trouble reading a web
page that uses Verdana. The problem is that while 9 pt
Verdana is readable, 9 pt Arial is not readable, and a
person who doesn't have Verdana will probably have their web
browser choose Arial as the substitute font.
Tahoma
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Tahoma is another of Microsoft's web fonts. It is not as widely
available as Verdana or Arial are.
Arial Black
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Arial Black is a version of Arial designed for headlines.
Comic Sans MS
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Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif font with a soft, rounded style.
Impact
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Impact is a Microsoft Web font, designed for headlines.
Avant Garde
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Avant Garde or Century Gothic. HP Printers call this Avant
Garde Gothic.
Less-common serif fonts
Georgia is a web-optimized serif font, but is still a newcomer. Palatino is as old and established as Times is, but looks terrible on recent Unix systems. Century Schoolbook, Garamond, and Bookman seem to be available on Unix systems, but I am not sure how widespread they are on Windows/Mac systems.
Georgia
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Georgia is a Microsoft Web font. It has serifs but also has
large lowercase letters, similar to Verdana. It is a nicely
readable screen font, but has the same problems that Verdana
does: it looks bad when printed, and paged designed for Georgia
will look bad if rendered in Times, because of the difference in
letter size.
Palatino
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Palatino is a less-commonly used serif font. It is available on
Macintosh and Unix computers, and is a core PostScript font. It
is available on Windows computers under alternate font names.
Palatino was originally designed as a display font—for
example, to be used in lettering on signs. Nevertheless, it
is commonly used to set body text.
Bookman
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Bookman, also called Bookman Old Style.
Not shipped with WinXP. Shipped with MS Office 2000.
Garamond
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Garamond. There are a lot of variants of this font.
Not shipped with WinXP.
Century Schoolbook
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Century Schoolbook is a core postscript font. You cannot rely on
its being present on Windows computers.
Not shipped with WinXP.
Less-common monospace fonts
Andale Mono is similar to Verdana and Georgia; it is a new font,
not widespread, and not available on Unix or on some Windows computers.
Andale Mono
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Andale Mono is yet another Microsoft's monospace typeface. It
has some resemblance to Monaco.
Not shipped with WinXP.
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