FixedSys & Terminal Fonts

Question

How come the font FixedSys and Terminal ONLY work on FireFox and not on any other major browser?

What's the deal? Is it because they are system fonts or am I missing something?

Thanks

Answer 1

How come the font FixedSys and Terminal ONLY work on FireFox and not on any other major browser?

What's the deal? Is it because they are system fonts or am I missing something?

The fonts do not depend on browser, they should be applied if they are present on the client machine. If you can view it in FF, they should be viewable in other browsers as well. The FixedSys font is shipped with Windows and is available (Not sure about other OS). Make sure that you can differentiate it or there could be some other problem. Using reset CSS may also help.

Answer 2

Those fonts aren't available everywhere (for example Linux). If you want to display monospaced text, use monospace as fallback. It defaults to the standard monospace font of the system.