: Is 'bookman old style' web safe Is 'Bookman Old Style' web safe? If not, is there something that looks similar which is web safer?

@Harper822

Bookman Old Style is not a web safe typeface, but you can specify the following CSS font stack to get an 'old style serif' face on many platforms, with plain serif fallbacks:

body{
font-family: "Calisto MT", "Bookman Old Style", Bookman, "Goudy Old Style", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Bitstream Charter", Georgia, serif;
}

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@Kevin317

If you must have Bookman, it's available under Typekit's Personal plan, which is currently just /year. Otherwise, there's nothing stopping you from specifying it in your font stacks; you'll have to decide the likelihood of your audience haaving Office installed, etc. and whether that's worth it. Just make sure you provide a fallback to something more reliable like Georgia.

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@Courtney195

It's not a safe choice: Bookman Old Style is bundled with MS Office. That means it's on a lot of machines, but far from 100% coverage. None of my machines, for example, has it.

I would check out services like FontSquirrel or Google Web Fonts for a free, usable font that can be embedded into your site, and comes close to Bookman.

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@Sarah324

You should re-read the most authoritative page as it includes Bookman..


Other options that usually work cross-platform are:


Palatino
Garamond
Bookman
Avant Garde



and a bit down the page continues with


Bookman
Bookman, also called Bookman Old Style. Not shipped with WinXP. Shipped with MS Office 2000.

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