Linux for Designers

There are a lot of sites presenting you funny or horrible pictures - no deal. But to find something interesting and inspiring is quite hard. Two days ago i sit together with Nic in front of the screen and discovering two hours long FFFFOUND! - deal!

I found several posts about font comparsion for web development and cascading stylesheets. But most are incomplete or didn't compare all three major systems Linux, MacOS X and Windows.
Based on my own experience and a list of websites (Linux font equivalents, Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 font list, MacOS X Safari, iPhone fonts and Microsoft products and fonts) i created my own list.
Most users have Windows installed and Microsoft has once startet a webfont project. So i use typical Windows fonts as the base of my list. Another rule of the selection was that the alternative font faces didn't have a larger width then the the original has:
* Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif
* "Courier New",Courier,FreeMono,"Nimbus Mono L",monospace
* Georgia,"Bitstream Charter","Century Schoolbook L",Times,serif
* "Lucida Sans","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",Lucida,sans-serif
* "Lucida Console",Monaco,"DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono",monospace
* Palatino,"Palatino Linotype",Palladio,"URW Palladio L","Book Antiqua",Times,serif
* Tahoma,Geneva,"DejaVu Sans Condensed",sans-serif
* "Times New Roman",Times,"Nimbus Roman No9 L","FreeSerif",serif
* Verdana,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Geneva,sans-serif

Some newer Vista fonts are still uncompared. An update will follow soon