I found myself wanting to use Palatino Linotype as the font on a web site, to match most closely the font used on the client’s business cards and marketing materials.

Having recently found out that use of the “face” parameter of the HTML font tag is not necessarily considered a Good Thing, and knowing I will be relying heavily on CSS, where the “font-family” specification is used instead, that made me wonder what the rest of the font family members ought to be. Not everyone will have that Palatino font, after all.

I found this font resources page at Browser News, a site new to me, to be extremely useful. It charts similar fonts and gives an example based on the preference of Book Antiqua:

font-family:’Book Antiqua’, ‘Palatino Linotype’, Palatino, ‘Times New Roman’, TimesNR, Times, serif;

This is similar to what I would need in my CSS file, except to move Book Antiqua to the third position. Very nice.