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Text looks great on the high-density iPod screen—it's a pity there aren't more interesting fonts to try on it. On the plus side, it's quite possible that Apple or others might be able to install some better ones through future firmware updates or software installations.

Further down the list, some of the choices (Marker Felt, Zapfino) are just bizarre to include, while others (Gill Sans, Futura, the Lucida family, my old fave Palatino) are sadly absent. I'm happy to see Georgia in there, and equally pleased that Comic Sans isn't.

Notice how few fonts actually display as themselves. Of the top ten, only three (Arial, Helvetica, and Verdana) show up correctly. Courier is actually the flimsier Courier New, and everything else defaults to one variant or other of the built-in Helvetica or Arial sans-serif typefaces. Here's a :

I wanted to see what this meant in real-world usage, so I hopped over to Code Style's list of most popular available type options on the Web, updated by surveys earlier this month. Here was when I compared the font list displayed on my MacBook (left) to the same list on the iPhone (right)—click for a PNG-format version:

It's a shame this wonderful display is being held back by such a poor selection of installed fonts.

Apple's iPhone and ship with a rather of web fonts, and as John Gruber wrote back in the summer:

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