# What's the default font?

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**Created:** [June 14, 2004, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-default-font/250272 "2004-06-14T12:48:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-default-font/250272/1 "2004-06-14T12:48:45Z")

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I did search for a thread on this, but couldn’t find one. What is the default font for the body of posts? Century Gothic? Or Microsoft Sans Serif?

Hmm…

qwertyuiop - Century Gothic  
qwertyuiop - Microsoft Sans Serif

(previews)

Is there a difference? I don’t see one.

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**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-default-font/250272/2 "2004-06-14T14:23:21Z")

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[Trebuchet](http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/microsoft/trebuchet/).

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-default-font/250272/3 "2004-06-14T16:00:54Z")

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**Colophon** did you get your name changed recently? I have only seen it in the past few days but your start date is Sep 2002.

(sorry for the hijack but this seemed like the best place to ask without starting a thread)

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**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-default-font/250272/4 "2004-06-14T23:35:21Z")

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> [@Colophon](#):
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> Is there a difference? I don’t see one.

Really? I see [quite a difference](http://www.marlowe.supanet.com/font.bmp).

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-default-font/250272/5 "2004-06-16T16:40:37Z")

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> [@Lobsang](#):
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> **Colophon** did you get your name changed recently? I have only seen it in the past few days but your start date is Sep 2002.

Yep. See sig.

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-default-font/250272/6 "2004-06-17T18:35:23Z")

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i burning your dog - default  
i burning your dog - Arial  
i burning your dog - Arial Black  
i burning your dog - Arial Narrow  
i burning your dog - Book Antiqua  
i burning your dog - Century Gothic  
i burning your dog - Comic Sans MS  
i burning your dog - Courier New  
i burning your dog - Fixedsys  
i burning your dog - Franklin Gothic Medium  
i burning your dog - Garamond  
i burning your dog - Georgia  
i burning your dog - Impact  
i burning your dog - Lucida Console  
i burning your dog - Lucida Sans Unicode  
i burning your dog - Microsoft Sans Serif  
i burning your dog - Palatino Linotype  
i burning your dog - System  
i burning your dog - Tahoma  
i burning your dog - Times New Roman  
i burning your dog - Trebuchet MS  
i burning your dog - Verdana