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Basing on your experience in frontend and web applications, can you provide good and solid source or list with web-safe fonts? Or any other good tool ensuring font safety in web browsers?
Most of the time I was using Squirrel Fonts but a lot of fonts, which my designers use, are blocked there and the only way I can show them are PNGs.
There’s no absolute safety, unless you’re going with generic classes like "serif", "sans-serif" etc.
Here are some resources that can give you an idea about the most prevalent fonts:
You’ll see that no single font exists on all operating systems. The best thing you can do is to use a font stack that covers the greatest percentage and hope for the best. Using a sensible font stack is the way to go…