Things get really weird here. While you expect Macs to have different typefaces from Windows, you would expect Windows to retain all the old ones and to add more over time. Not so. Windows XP does not deploy the same typefaces as Windows 98 does.
WinXP does not have the following typefaces that appeared on Win98: Brush Script MT, Calisto MT, Century Schoolbook (a choice of mine), Desdemona, Georgia Ref (it has Georgia), Letter Gothic MT, Lucida Handwriting (an excellent choice for cursive), Matisse ITC, Matura MT Script Capitals, MS Linedraw, News Gothic MT, OCR A Extended, Tempus Sans ITC. (I may have installed one or two of those under Win98, but certainly not all.)
The default and serif are Times New Roman in both MSIE and Gecko. Arial is the sans-serif and Comic Sans MS is cursive in both. MSIE has no fantasy typeface assigned and Courier New is the monospace. I can't identify Gecko fantasy and monospace typefaces. Neither Courier nor Script is TrueType. Script doesn't exist under Win98, and Gecko can't find it, Symbol, or Webdings under WinXP.
Opera adds its own wrinkles with WinXP by not having a cursive typeface and using Terminal for its fantasy typeface. Its default and serif are Times New Roman and its sans-serif is Verdana. It uses Courier for monospace. It does find Script but can't find Symbol or Webdings.
Unlike most typefaces Verdana and Georgia were designed for computer display. Thus these are my first choices, especially since both exist on Windows and Macintosh.
| default | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
|---|---|
| serif | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| sans-serif | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| cursive | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| fantasy | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| monospace | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Arial | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Arial Black | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Book Antiqua | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Brush Script MT | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Calisto MT | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Century Gothic | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Century Schoolbook | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Comic Sans MS | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Courier | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Courier New | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Desdemona | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Garamond | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Georgia | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Georgia Ref | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Impact | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Letter Gothic MT | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Lucida Handwriting | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Lucida Sans | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Lucida Sans Unicode | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Matisse ITC | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Matura MT Script Capitals | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| MS Linedraw | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| News Gothic MT | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| OCR A Extended | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Palatino Linotype | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Script | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Symbol | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Tempus Sans ITC | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Times New Roman | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Trebuchet MS | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Verdana | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| Webdings | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |