Supported Fonts on IE for Windows Phone 7

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Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 7 supports a variety of font faces (13) that you can use in your Web pages, ranging from the usual suspects like Arial to fonts like Segoe WP, which Windows Phone uses itself for various User Interface text. The full set of default fonts available are listed in the following table. Each of these font faces has an attendant variant for bold or italic.

Regular Bold Italic
Arial Arial Arial
Arial Black Arial Black Arial Black
Comic Sans MS Comic Sans MS Comic Sans MS
Courier New Courier New Courier New
Georgia Georgia Georgia
Lucida Sans Unicode Lucida Sans Unicode Lucida Sans Unicode
Times New Roman Times New Roman Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS Trebuchet MS Trebuchet MS
Verdana Verdana Verdana
Webdings (Webdings) Webdings (Webdings) Webdings (Webdings)
Tahoma Tahoma Tahoma
Calibri Calibri Calibri
Segoe WP Segoe WP Segoe WP

In addition to these, there are three East Asian fonts that we include:

  • Japanese: Meiryo UI
  • Simplified Chinese: Microsoft YaHei
  • Korean: Malgun Gothic

And here’s a snapshot of how they look on the phone:

FontsCapture

Joe Marini
Principal Program Manager
Windows Phone
https://twitter.com/joemarini

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2010
    What happened to @font-face? :( Is it coming?

  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2010
    Hey Joe, any plans on bringing IE9 (Trident 5.0) stuff to WP7 on IE Mobile? Would be amazing to experience native hardware-accelerated HTML5/JavaScript/CSS on a phone!

  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2010
    Hey Joe, any plans on bringing IE9 (Trident 5.0) stuff to WP7 on IE Mobile? Would be amazing to experience native hardware-accelerated HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3 on a phone!

  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2010
    Does it support <a href="www.w3.org/.../a>

  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2010
    That screenshot is rather blurry...any chance you could update it with a gif / png rather than jpg?

  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2010
    That screenshot is rather blurry...any chance you could update it with a gif / png rather than jpg?

  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2010
    Do you plan to plan to upgrade Internet Explorer Mobile to Trident 5.0 from which Internet Explorer 9 is based or perhaps Trident 4.0 from Internet Explorer 8?

  • Anonymous
    November 17, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2010
    @Interframe: nothing to announce on IE9 for mobile yet. Stay tuned!

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2010
    @Rik @Eric - Web font support is currently in IE9 on the desktop. We're investigating it for mobile.

  • Anonymous
    November 23, 2010
    @iemoblog No offence, but @font-face has been supported since IE4. It's sad to not see it in WP7. Also, +1 for phonegap. The future is HTML5. If you don't support these kinds of javascript/css3/etc frameworks, you'll miss out on a lot of apps and web developer support. From my understanding you can't even drag stuff (like a div) around with touch-events..

  • Anonymous
    November 24, 2010
    The Phonegap guys already have a version that works on WP7. We are working with them to ensure that Phonegap developers have a great framework on WP7. The initial release of IE on WP7 does have a few features lacking that the desktop version contains, but we are working to address those in a follow-up release. We are keenly aware of the features we need to make available to enable great Web experiences on the phone.

  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2010
    Dear Joe, that IE on WP7 doesnt support Arabic, do you have any idea if the any update will come soon that will fix this?

  • Anonymous
    December 16, 2010
    Adam -- I don't have a timetable for that, sorry.

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2011
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