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Proof readers' font comparisson chart

This page compares different fonts at different sizes, to see if for instance the small L and the digit 1 differ enough to keep on-screen proof reading doable.

View the tables for Andale Mono (monospaced), Arial, Courier (monospaced), Courier New (monospaced), Georgia, Helvetica, Lucida Console, and Times New Roman, or a PNG screenshot of the Phoenix browser rendering this page (ca. 33kB).

This page is set up in such a way, that if a font cannot be displayed, the browser should first choose the Comic Sans MS font instead, and if that is not available, the browser's default Cursive font. NOTE: unfortunately, Windows, on which I have made the screenshot, will automatically replace requests for Helvetica by requests for Arial. Also NOTE that in all other cases, the screen shot will be more reliable.

Some of these fonts are available as part of the Internet Explorer download package. Linux users will want to go to http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ instead.


 
Andale Mono (monospaced)
small lt. i cap. i digit 1 small lt. L cap. l punc. excl. ! punc. que. ? punc. apos. '
8 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
9 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
10 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
11 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
12 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
13 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
14 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
15 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
16 px i I 1 l L ! ? '

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Arial
small lt. i cap. i digit 1 small lt. L cap. l punc. excl. ! punc. que. ? punc. apos. '
8 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
9 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
10 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
11 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
12 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
13 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
14 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
15 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
16 px i I 1 l L ! ? '

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Courier (monospaced, bitmap)
small lt. i cap. i digit 1 small lt. L cap. l punc. excl. ! punc. que. ? punc. apos. '
8 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
9 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
10 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
11 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
12 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
13 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
14 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
15 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
16 px i I 1 l L ! ? '

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Courier New (monospaced)
small lt. i cap. i digit 1 small lt. L cap. l punc. excl. ! punc. que. ? punc. apos. '
8 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
9 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
10 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
11 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
12 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
13 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
14 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
15 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
16 px i I 1 l L ! ? '

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Helvetica
small lt. i cap. i digit 1 small lt. L cap. l punc. excl. ! punc. que. ? punc. apos. '
8 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
9 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
10 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
11 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
12 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
13 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
14 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
15 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
16 px i I 1 l L ! ? '

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Georgia
small lt. i cap. i digit 1 small lt. L cap. l punc. excl. ! punc. que. ? punc. apos. '
8 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
9 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
10 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
11 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
12 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
13 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
14 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
15 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
16 px i I 1 l L ! ? '

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Lucida Console
small lt. i cap. i digit 1 small lt. L cap. l punc. excl. ! punc. que. ? punc. apos. '
8 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
9 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
10 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
11 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
12 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
13 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
14 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
15 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
16 px i I 1 l L ! ? '

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Times New Roman
small lt. i cap. i digit 1 small lt. L cap. l punc. excl. ! punc. que. ? punc. apos. '
8 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
9 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
10 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
11 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
12 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
13 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
14 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
15 px i I 1 l L ! ? '
16 px i I 1 l L ! ? '

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