What text areas? Of this forum, in WordPress Administration Screens, the Codex, can you be more specific?
If you are talking about the Admin area when you make a post, the page features:
font: 10pt Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
and the text area itself where you write the message I believe is the same or “Courier New” monospace type font.
Yeah, sorry, I was talking about the text area in WordPress 1.5 where you write the message. Thanks
Actually, this font as well (it’s the same).
Georgia, Times New Roman or Times – depending upon what YOU have installed on your machine.
The problem with web fonts is that they ones that are on your machine already are the ones that display when requested by a web page. That’s why more than one font in the font definition is recommended, so the result you want happens by covering a similar range of fonts.
Good article on this in the Codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Playing_With_Fonts