Yeah that DarkEQ style is kinda ugly (no offense). As for the font, can't you just use:

<font face="Arial, Courier New, Time New Roman" color="#xxxxxx">Text goes here</font>

to specify the order in which fonts should be used if they are available? I'm pretty sure this would first use Arial, then Courier New, then Times New Roman then default to whatever the HTML page is set to use (given the availability of each).