In HTML HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of "tags" surrounded by angle brackets within the web page content and XHTML XHTML is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which web pages are written, a font face or font family is the typeface that will be applied by a web browser A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users to easily navigate their browsers to to some text. The font is relevant for the display of text on the screen, on a printer or another device.

A font family and other presentational attribute of a font may be applied in HTML code in either cascading style sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL (CSS) or the deprecated In computer software or authoring programs standards and documentation, the term deprecation is applied to software features that are superseded and should be avoided. Although deprecated features remain in the current version, their use may raise warning messages recommending alternative practices, and deprecation may indicate that the feature HTML font element.

<p style="font-family: times, serif; font-size:14pc; font-style:italic">
Sample text formatted with CSS.
</p>
<p><i><font face="times, serif" size="3">
Sample text formatted with the deprecated FONT tag.
</font></i></p>

In CSS, a font-family (or face in HTML) in fact consists of a set of related fonts, grouped as font families. For example, the Times family includes different font sizes, styles (like roman and italic) and weight (like regular and bold).

The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available to it, which is not always the case. HTML code writers may list in preferential order font families to use when rendering text. The font list is separated by commas (as shown above). To avoid unexpected results, the last font family on the font list will be one of the five generic families which are by default always available in HTML and CSS. In the absence of a font being found, the web browser will use its default font, which may be a user defined one. Depending on the web browser, a user can in fact override the font defined by the code writer. This may be for personal taste reasons, but may also be because of some physical limitation of the user - such as the need for a larger font size, or the avoiding of certain colours.

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Generic font families

The generic font families defined in HTML and CSS are:[1]

Family Example (browser dependent)
serif In typography, serifs are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface that has serifs is called a serif typeface . A typeface without serifs is called sans-serif, from the French sans, meaning “without”. Some typography sources refer to sans-serif typefaces as "grotesque" ( The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
sans-serif In typography, a sans-serif or sans serif typeface is one that does not have the small features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. The term comes from the Latin word "sine", via the French word sans, meaning "without" The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
cursive Cursive is any style of handwriting that is designed for writing notes and letters quickly by hand. In the Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic writing systems, the letters in a word are connected, making a word one single complex stroke. The word "cursive" comes from the Latin cursivus, meaning "flowing" The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
fantasy The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
monospace A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts to variable-width fonts, where the letters differ in size to one another The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Under Windows API The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was formerly called the Win32 API; however, the name Windows API more accurately reflects its roots in 16-bit Windows and its support on 64-bit Windows. Almost all Windows programs interact with, these families are identified as Roman, Swiss, Script, Decorative, and Modern, respectively.

Generic fonts

The font-family can use a specific named font (like Heisei Mincho W9) but the result depends on the installed fonts in the user machine. Font names must be quoted if containing whitespaces. The actual appearance will depend on your browser and the fonts installed on your system.[1] A default installation of Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is a public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8's Internet Explorer Windows Internet Explorer , is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. It has been the most widely used web browser since 1999, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003 with IE5 and IE6, for instance, always displays serif and Times as Times New Roman, and sans-serif and Helvetica as Arial Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a sans-serif typeface and computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other Microsoft software applications, Apple Mac OS X and many PostScript computer printers.[citation needed] The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders for Monotype Typography. Monotype is the current.

Font Example (dependent on installed fonts)
Times New Roman Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931, designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically behind the times. The font was supervised The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Roman The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Garamond Garamond is the name given to a group of old-style serif typefaces named for the punch-cutter Claude Garamond . Most of the Garamond faces are more closely related to the work of a later punch-cutter, Jean Jannon. A direct relationship between Garamond’s letterforms and contemporary type can be found in the Roman versions of the typefaces Adobe The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Palatino Palatino is the name of a large typeface family that began as an old style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf initially released in 1948 by the Linotype foundry The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Antiqua The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Minion The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Helvetica Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Swiss The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Impact The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Script The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Decorative The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Blackletter Black letter, also known as Gothic script or Gothic minuscule, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 to well into the 17th century. It continued to be used for the German language until the 20th century. Fraktur is a notable script of this type, and sometimes the entire group of faces is known as Fraktur. Black letter The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Fraktur The German word Fraktur German pronunciation: [fʁakˈtuːɐ] refers to a specific sub-group of blackletter typefaces. The word derives from the past participle fractus of Latin frangere (“to break”). As opposed to Antiqua (common) typefaces, which were modeled after antique Roman square capitals and Carolingian minuscule, the blackletter The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Comic Sans The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Modern The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Courier The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Calibri The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Verdana Verdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hinting done by Thomas Rickner, then at Monotype. Demand for such a typeface was recognized by Virginia Howlett of Microsoft's typography group. The name "Verdana" is based on a portmanteau of verdant , and Ana (the name of Howlett's The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Frosty The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Georgia The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Avqest The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Notes

  1. ^ a b http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#generic-font-families

See also

Categories: HTML | Typesetting

 

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