: Web-safe alternative to Univers? My company uses the Univers font as its official typeface and I'm looking for a good Web-safe alternative. The options are limited, but typefaces are really my

@Holmes874

If web fonts are not an option, then the answer to your questions is: use whichever you prefer. None of the font stacks you list are like Univers other than they are sans serif.

And that can be OK, but it really is a decision you need to make at this point (though, obviously, I hope, you'll not use Comic-sans).

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@Merenda852

As mentioned in the comments, "web-safe" isn't quite what it used to be. The best way to be "web-safe" is to use a web font.

If cost is a barrier, there are many quality free choices.

If hosting yourself is a barrier, then you can use Google's services to do it for you for free.

If using an external service is a barrier, then you can download free fonts and host yourself.

Browser compatibility is not a barrier. IE 4+

If I was able to convince you...

Univers is pretty close to Helvetica, and I prefer Roboto as the webfont of choice to replace Helvetica-esque fonts (that's what it was made for! See a comparision):



It was made for the screen and has a robust set of weights.

For further reference:

Helvetica Neue Equivalent on Google Fonts?

Is there a free 'Helvetica Neue' alternative?

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@Alves566

Basically what Baka said in comments, and you acknowledged in your edit. If you can't use web-fonts then the default is sans-serif which will probably be Arial or Helvetica for most of your browsers. You could try using Verdana at the top of the stack.

font-family: 'Verdana', sans-serif;

But its pretty negligible at that point. Helvetica is actually closer to Univers so default for a lot of Mac users would be better than Verdana.

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