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Jim wants to know all about Windows System fonts
Which fonts match between Windows XP Professional and Windows 7 Home Premium? I notice that there are a lot of discrepancies between "standard" fonts in XP and 7, and I don't know if the font titles need to match EXACTLY in order for e-mails to appear the same to both sender and recipient! For example, if someone having Incredimail2 on a System7 machine sends me an e-mail composed with "Mistral Regular" font and I have "Mistral AV" font on my XP Pro machine, will my e-mail received in Incredimail2 look the same or will it default to something like "Arial" font? It would be helpful if you were to explain what it takes for fonts sent and received to match and to expand on your excellent essay on "Windows Standard Fonts" to include a new treatise on "Standard Fonts in XP, Vista, and System7" and answer the question as to whether, say, "Franklin Gothic Regular" matches "Franklin Gothic" on the other system. By the way, you've been of tremendous help to me over the years!

Our Answer
Thanks, Jim.

First, there are font families, like Franklin Gothic, Arial, Tahoma, etc. Within each font family there may be several "children". To use the reference you have given, Franklin Gothic is the font family, bold, italic, normal, etc. are the "children". Most always if someone has the Franklin Gothic font family installed, they will also have the children in that family installed. If for some reason they don't, and you specify Franklin Gothic italic, and they don't have the italic child installed, they will see whatever Franklin Gothic font they have installed. So, the answer to the question is: Yes, they do have to have the font family installed and the exact font you specify or they won't see exactly what you sent. The same holds true for the Mistral Font Family. If both computers have that font family installed, then your recipient will see the email exactly the way you sent it. If you use a child of a font family that the recipient does not have installed, they'll see the same font family but not exactly in the way you sent it.

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As far as Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 system fonts, that's quite a challenge. Rather than writing a long rambling article about the different system fonts in different versions of Windows, we'll provide you pages that list system fonts for each of the versions of Windows that you mention:

Windows 7 System Fonts

Windows Vista System Fonts

Windows XP System Fonts

We hope this helps you, Jim.

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