My Webpage Design Information
*Note 1: I've seen this page being circulated around the groups many, many times.
While I don't mind sharing and I don't mind if you share it, I sure would appreciate it
if you linked back to this page so others can see the rest of the tutorials (which they may need)
and to credit me for the work I did in assembling the information. Thanks a bunch!

*Note 2: If you ever have any problem locating a font you need, please contact me and I'll see what I can do for you.

During a typical installation, Windows installs the following TrueType fonts
into the Windows Fonts folder (see the charts below). Because Windows and other
applications may require one or more of these fonts to run and to display
dialog boxes correctly, I recommend that you do not remove them from the Fonts folder.
Some of them may be safe to delete as far as Windows goes, but don't forget that other programs
may be expecting them to be installed, knowing they are standard fonts for Windows,
and there may be problems running that program if that particular font is not installed.
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Windows also installs several hidden font files (e.g., Dosapp.fon and Vgafix.fon), which do not appear in the Fonts
Control Panel, but may appear in font management utilities, such as Adobe Type Manager.
Windows requires these hidden font files to run; do not remove them from the Fonts folder.
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The fonts marked with an asterisk * are essential to Windows function so never delete these.
To be safe, I would never take any of the fonts in these charts out of your Windows Font Folder.
These aren't a lot of fonts and better to be safe than sorry.

What TrueType fonts are installed by Windows?
That depends on what version of Windows you are running.
Consult the chart below. These are correct to the best of my knowledge.

Click here for Core Fonts for other programs
Click on your operating system to see the essential fonts needed.
     

   

*NOTE: I did have zip files of all of the essential fonts for windows available but a font vendor
(who had nothing to do with Microsoft except for selling their fonts) threatened to make trouble for me with Microsoft.
As far as I was concerned, I was just offering a service to those who already had
paid for these fonts when they bought windows and had accidentally deleted them.
I still feel it was a service that didn't hurt anyone and that I was doing nothing wrong,
but I don't want any trouble so I removed them. Sorry about that.
If you lose any of your essential fonts and can't get your computer or some programs
to work properly, you will need to reinstall windows.

Essential Fonts for Windows
 
Microsoft Windows 2000
Standard Fonts		 Microsoft Windows NT
Standard Fonts		 Microsoft Windows XP
Standard Fonts

Arial*
Arial Black
Arial Bold*
Arial Bold Italic*
Arial Italic*
Comic Sans MS
Comic Sans MS Bold
Courier 10,12,15*
Courier New*
Courier New Bold*
Courier New Bold Italic* 
Courier New Italic*
Georgia
Georgia Bold
Georgia Bold Italic
Georgia Italic
Impact
Lucida Console 
Lucida Sans Unicode
Microsoft Sans Serif
Modern
MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24*
MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24*
Palatino Linotype
Palatino Linotype Bold
Palatino Linotype Bold Italic
Palatino Linotype Italic
Roman (Plotter)*
Script (Plotter)*
Small Fonts*
Symbol*
Symbol 8,10,12,14,18,24*
Tahoma
Tahoma Bold
Times New Roman*
Times New Roman Bold*
Times New Roman Bold Italic*
Times New Roman Italic*
Trebuchet MS
Trebuchet MS Bold
Trebuchet MS Bold Italic
Trebuchet MS Italic
Verdana
Verdana Bold
Verdana Bold Italic
Verdana Italic
Webdings
WingDings*

Also do not delete
Any Font with a red A for an icon*
Any font that begins with the letters MS*

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Arial*
Arial Bold*
Arial Bold Italic*
Arial Italic*
Courier 10,12,15*
Courier New*
Courier New Bold*
Courier New Bold Italic*
Courier New Italic*
Lucida Console
Modern (Plotter)*
MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24*
MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24*
Roman (Plotter)*
Script (Plotter)*
Small Fonts*
Symbol*
Symbol 8,10,12,14,18,24*
Times New Roman*
Times New Roman Bold*
Times New Roman Bold Italic*
Times New Roman Italic*
WingDings*

Also do not delete
Any Font with a red A for an icon*
Any font that begins with the letters MS*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arial*
Arial Black 
Arial Bold*
Arial Bold Italic*
Arial Italic*
Comic Sans MS 
Comic Sans MS Bold Courier 10,12,15 
Courier New*
Courier New Bold*
Courier New Bold Italic*
Courier New Italic*
Estrangelo Edessa 
Franklin Gothic Medium 
Franklin Gothic Medium 
Italic 
Gautami 
Georgia 
Georgia Bold 
Georgia Bold Italic 
Georgia Italic Impact 
Latha 
Lucida Console 
Lucida Sans Unicode 
Microsoft Sans Serif*
Modern (Plotter)*
MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24*
MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24*
Mv Boli 
Palatino Linotype 
Palatino Linotype Bold 
Palatino Linotype Bold Italic 
Palatino Linotype Italic 
Roman (Plotter)*
Script (Plotter)*
Small Fonts*
Symbol*
Symbol 8,10,12,14,18,24*
Tahoma 
Tahoma Bold 
Times New Roman*
Times New Roman Bold*
Times New Roman Bold Italic* 
Times New Roman Italic* 
Trebuchet MS 
Trebuchet MS Bold 
Trebuchet MS Bold Italic 
Trebuchet MS Italic 
Tunga 
Verdana 
Verdana Bold 
Verdana Bold Italic Verdana Italic 
Webdings 
WingDings*
WST_Czech 
WST_Engl 
WST_Fren 
WST_Germ 
WST_Ital 
WST_Span 
WST_Swed

Also do not delete
Any Font with a red A for an icon*
Any font that begins with the letters MS*
Microsoft Windows 95
Standard Fonts		 Microsoft Windows 98
Standard Fonts		 Microsoft Windows ME
Standard Fonts
Arial*
Arial Bold*
Arial Italic
Arial Bold Italic*
Courier*
Courier New*
Courier New Bold*
Courier New Italic*
Courier New Bold Italic*
Marlett*
Modern (Plotter)*
MS Sans Serif*
MS Serif*
Small fonts*
Symbol*
Times New Roman*
Times New Roman Bold*
Times New Roman Italic*
Times New Roman Bold Italic*
Wingdings*

Also do not delete
Any Font with a red A for an icon*
Any font that begins with the letters MS*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Abadi MT Condensed Light
Arial*
Arial Black
Arial Bold*
Arial Bold Italic*
Arial Italic*
Book Antiqua
Calisto MT
Century Gothic
Century Gothic Bold
Century Gothic Bold Italic
Century Gothic Italic
Comic San MS
Comic San MS Bold
Copperplate Gothic Bold
Copperplate Gothic Light
Courier*
Courier New*
Courier New Bold*
Courier New Italic*
Courier New Bold Italic*
Courier 10, 12, 15*
Impact
Lucida Console
Lucida Handwriting Italic
Lucida Sans Italic
Lucida Sans Unicode
Marlett*
Matisse ITC
Modern (Plotter)*
MS Sans Serif*
MS Serif*
MS Sans Serif 8, 10, 12, 14,18, 24*
MS Serif 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24*
News Gothic MT
News Gothic MT Bold
News Gothic MT Italic
OCR A Extended
Small fonts*
Symbol*
Symbol 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24*
Tahoma
Tahoma Bold
Tempus Sans ITC
Times New Roman*
Times New Roman Bold*
Times New Roman Bold Italic*
Times New Roman Italic*
Verdana
Verdana Bold
Verdana Bold Italic
Verdana Italic
Webdings
Wingdings*
Westminster

Also do not delete
Any Font with a red A for an icon*
Any font that begins with the letters MS*
 

 Arial*
Arial Alternative Regular
Arial Alternative Symbol
Arial Black
Arial Bold*
Arial Bold Italic*
Arial Italic*
Comic San MS
Comic San MS Bold
Courier 10, 12, 15*
Courier New*
Courier New Bold*
Courier New Italic*
Courier New Bold Italic*
Impact
Lucida Console
Marlett
MS Sans Serif 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24*
MS Serif 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24*
Small fonts*
Symbol*
Symbol 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24*
Tahoma
Tahoma Bold
Times New Roman*
Times New Roman Bold*
Times New Roman Bold Italic*
Times New Roman Italic*
Trebuchet
Trebuchet Bold
Trebuchet Bold Italic
Trebuchet Italic
Verdana
Verdana Bold
Verdana Bold Italic
Verdana Italic
Webdings
Wingdings*
Westminster

Also do not delete
Any Font with a red A for an icon*
Any font that begins with the letters MS*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
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Core Fonts for Other Programs

 

Core Fonts for the Web

Andale Mono (formerly Monotype)
Arial
Arial Black
Comic Sans
Courier New
Georgia
Impact
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Webdings
Corel Draw Print Artist Windows Draw
Avant Garde Book BT (TrueType)
Avant Garde Oblique BT (TrueType)
Avant Garde Medium BT (TrueType)
Avant Garde Medium Oblique BT (TrueType)
CommonBullets (TrueType)
FuturaMedcondBT (Corel's # TT0201M.TTF)		 Palisade

 

 

 

 Swiss921 BT
(Also see page 4 of the manual for Windows Draw 6 Print Studio, and page 27 of the manual for Complete Publisher '99 for a list of fonts that must be installed for the text styles and templates to appear properly.)
Createacard Internet Web Browsers Microsoft Office, Outlook &
Outlook Express
Swiss721 BT
(Creatacard also has fonts that begin with CAC - these can be removed; however, some of the included projects may not display correctly.)
 		 Courier New
Times New Roman
Webdings

 		 Tahoma



 
Quickbooks Microsoft Bookshelf Microsoft Picture-It
Four fonts that all start with "Quicktype"
 		 Three fonts called Bookshelf Symbols 1-3
 		 Comic Sans
Comic BD

What can you do if you've already deleted some of the required fonts?
Don't panic. You can easily restore essential fonts by reinstalling Windows (with the exception of Windows XP).
Running Windows Setup over your current installation will not harm your computer or installed software
and it will restore any missing files, including fonts. We have always done this with all versions of Windows with
no problems, but we have had the personal experience of reinstalling Windows XP over top of the current
Windows XP to resolve a problem and it replaced the registry so we had to reinstall our programs.
Other people we know have installed Windows XP over top of Windows XP and
haven't run into this problem so this is just a heads up so you can be prepared.

For more information about fonts supplied with Microsoft Products, go here
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.asp

I found a lot of my information on these pages at:
About.com: http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/extra/bldefaultfonts.htm 
Data Doctors Computer Problems:  http://www.computerproblems.com







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Webpage Design Information
 This webpage background was made in PhotoImpact with a tutorial by Deb DeHaven
Sadly, she passed away and her website is not online anymore.
I use PhotoImpact to make all of my headers and font previews due to the amazing
3D text it has and the wonderful presets available free online
The font I used in the lace headers is BrockScript.
(Click on the font name to download)
 Most of the presets I use are either the ones that come with PhotoImpact, usually the Gel ones,
or from Deb's PI Tutorials and More (see below) or Carol Oyl's site
This is the address to Deb's Tutorials and More old pages
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/millenit/1716/pitutorials/objects/presets/presets1.html
I can't find any links to her new pages but the presets are still on this page for download.
For more sites to find PI Presets, take a look at my Great Beginnings page.
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