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How do I use font-family in CSS?
The browser will select the first font in the list that is installed or that can be downloaded using a @font-face at-rule. It is often convenient to use the shorthand property font to set font-size and other font related properties all at once.
Which of the following is an example of generic font family?
In the example above, the last value is a generic family name. The following generic families are defined: ‘serif’ (e.g., Times) ‘sans-serif’ (e.g., Helvetica)…15.3. 1.1 serif.
| Latin fonts | Times New Roman, Bodoni, Garamond, Minion Web, ITC Stone Serif, MS Georgia, Bitstream Cyberbit |
|---|---|
| Cherokee fonts | Lo Cicero Cherokee |
What values can be assigned to the font-weight property?
In earlier versions of the font-weight specification, the property accepts only keyword values and the numeric values 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, and 900; non-variable fonts can only really make use of these set values, although fine-grained values (e.g. 451) will be translated to one of these values for …
Can a font fall down a fallback stack?
An interesting note about fallback fonts is that it’s not all-or-nothing. Individual characters in a font can fall down the stack if the specified font doesn’t have that character available. As an extreme example, I’ll load the custom font Source Code Pro from Google Fonts but I’ll force it to only contain a handful of letters.
What happens when you link two different fonts?
Once you link fonts, you can use the base font to display code points that do not exist in the base font, but that do exist in one of the linked fonts. For example, linking a Hangeul font and a Japanese font to a Tahoma font allows you to display both Korean and Japanese characters while specifying Tahoma font.
Which is a better fallback font Georgia or impact?
In the example above, we can see that Georgia is a much nicer fallback font than Impact is! The example is a little bit more fancy than just changing the font though. A couple of other settings were changed to make them match as closely as they are. To take advantage of that, you’re in font loading territory, which gets a bit complex.
Can a base font be linked to a composite font?
Unlike font fallback, in which the selected font is internally replaced by a predefined font, in font linking (also called “composite fonts”) it is possible to link one or more fonts (called “linked fonts”) to another font (called the “base font”).