: What is the default serif, sans-serif and monospace font-family for Mac OS X? Beginning with OS X 10.0 Cheetah, and assuming they are the same through the current release 10.8 Mountain Lion,

@Nickens628

The default fonts for WebKit/Safari under Mac OS X are as follows:


Monospace -> Courier
Sans-serif -> Helvetica
Serif -> Times
Standard (default) -> Times


This is gleaned directly from the WebKit source, specifically the XML/plist file at Source/WebCore/Resources/DefaultFont.plist.in that's available online here. It includes the following lines:

<dict>
<key>monospace</key>
<string>Courier</string>
<key>standard</key>
<string>Times</string>
<key>sans-serif</key>
<string>Helvetica</string>
<key>serif</key>
<string>Times</string>
</dict>


The same file also includes the default monospace, sans-serif, and serif fonts for Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, if those are of any interest to you.

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