Phil Shaw has the answers.
The latest sans serif font survey results are now available online in
graphical format with CSS text and image samples.
http://www.codestyle.org/sansserif
Survey submissions before January 2004 have been archived, so these
figures are the mean average frequency for the past 4 years. New
image samples have been added for many Mac fonts.
Best regards,
Phil Shaw
Platform | Font name | % Frequency
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Windows | Microsoft Sans Serif | 99.53
Windows | Arial Black | 97.64
Windows | Franklin Gothic Medium | 97.19
Windows | Verdana | 97.03
Windows | Arial | 96.46
Mac | Arial | 96.43
Mac | Arial Black | 96.10
Mac | Helvetica | 95.94
Windows | Tahoma | 95.94
Windows | Trebuchet MS | 95.11
Mac | Verdana | 93.99
Windows | Lucida Sans Unicode | 93.23
Mac | Trebuchet MS | 92.53
Mac | Helvetica Neue | 92.52
Mac | Gill Sans | 91.59
Mac | Geneva | 91.40
Mac | Arial Narrow | 91.23
Mac | Skia | 90.42
Mac | Lucida Sans | 89.55
Mac | Futura | 89.29
Mac | Lucida Grande | 88.47
Mac | Arial Rounded MT Bold | 87.99
Mac | Optima | 87.82
Windows | Arial Narrow | 87.04
Unix | URW Gothic L | 85.95
Windows | Century Gothic | 85.25
Windows | Kartika | 83.28
Windows | Vrinda | 83.28
Unix | Bitstream Vera Sans | 79.12
Windows | Lucida Sans | 77.36
Mac | Tahoma | 72.40
Windows | MS Reference Sans Serif | 68.28
Unix | Arial | 61.87
Mac | Charcoal | 61.69
Mac | Chicago | 61.20
Mac | Gadget | 58.93
Windows | Franklin Gothic Book | 58.59
Windows | Franklin Gothic Medium Cond | 58.44
Unix | Helvetica | 58.19
Windows | Franklin Gothic Demi | 57.97
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