Font Face Examples
Just a small sample of several different fonts in 18pt. Basically, if you do not have the fonts on your system, you'll see a fallback to the first font you have that the CSS file suggests.
Despite the fact these are all at 18pt, it's patently obvious some fonts are larger than others at this point size. This is one of the main hang-ups some folks have for the Verdana font, which is quite common on the Web.
I have a small collection of fonts available for download if any of the following appeal. As you can see, some of these are thoroughly inappropriate for general textual use on the WWW.
The ones marked with a * are single-case fonts only. For the Carleton font, it has a small-caps and a large-caps font, but no lower-case. If a particular font doesn't display, it'll fall back to the stylesheet default.
The Font Comparisons
This is the monospaced font Andale Mono in 18pt.
This is the sans-serif font Arial in 18pt.
This is the cursive font Arioso Normal in 18pt.
This is the cursive font Black Chancery in 18pt.
This is the serif font Book Antiqua in 18pt.
This is the serif font Bookman Old Style in 18pt.
* This is the serif font Carleton in 18pt.
This is the cursive font Carolingia in 18pt.
This is the sans-serif font Century Gothic in 18pt.
This is the serif font Chevara Normal in 18pt.
This is the cursive font MS Comic Sans in 18pt.
This is the monospaced font Courier New in 18pt.
This is the serif font Garamond in 18pt.
This is the serif font Georgia in 18pt.
This is the fantasy font Impact in 18pt.
This is the sans-serif font Lucida Sans Unicode in 18pt.
This is the serif font Luxi Serif in 18pt.
* This is the fantasy font Mael in 18pt.
This is the cursive font Monotype Corsiva in 18pt.
This is the serif font Palatino Linotype in 18pt.
This is the serif font Perpetua in 18pt.
This is the sans-serif font Skia in 18pt.
This is the fantasy font Stonehenge in 18pt.
This is the serif font Sylfaen in 18pt.
This is the sans-serif font Tahoma in 18pt.
This is the serif font Timmons Normal in 18pt.
This is the serif font Times New Roman in 18pt.
This is the sans-serif font Trebuchet MS in 18pt.
This is the sans-serif font Vera Sans in 18pt.
This is the serif font Vera Serif in 18pt.
This is the sans-serif font Verdana in 18pt.
This is the serif font Wellsley in 18pt.