default font

[jameshale]

I just had occasion to send a stack to another developer who wrote back that they were missing a font required.
This confused me at first as I hadn't thought that I had specified that particular font.
It turned out I had not specified a font for one particular filed and it was using the stack's default
And given I had recently dumped my pref file I am pretty sure I hadn't set this font as a default so I guess LC picked it.

Anyway I was wondering for multiplatform distribution what are the fonts to set as default, if any ?

[richmond62]

Probably none as 'cross-platform' in terms of 'truly cross-platform fonts' is as much a chimaera
as anything else: despite the WIMP GUI convergency that has been going on ever since Microsoft
wanted to pinch the Mac GUI (who pinched it from somewhere else) there has been a tug between OS producers
to produce something 'the same' as other OS producers, yet produce something 'better', and MacOS comes
with a load of default fonts installed

[for instance, looking at my PPC iMac running MacOS 10.5 I notice that Charcoal is still installed as a default font: but
I had to manually move it (because it is super from educational stuff) across to my present machine running MacOS 12)]

Running Xubuntu Linux and Zevin Linux (both running XFCE) I notice a vast discrepancy in default fonts.

The only machine I have that currently runs Windows (Windows XP) has a whole load of entirely different fonts
to those on my Mac, Linux and Haiki OS boxes, and probably different from Windows 8, 10 and 11.

HOWEVER: one can embed fonts in one's stack so they port across.

[jameshale]

Thanks Richmond.
I guess what I am really after is a list of smart choices for a minimal surprise when say developing on Mac and running on another platform.

[richmond62]

https://templates.mailchimp.com/design/ ... C%20Monaco.

[jameshale]

@richmond62 sweet!