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In HTML and XHTML, a font face or font family is the typeface that is applied to some text. HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ... The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but also conforms to XML syntax. ...

The font family and other presentational attributes of fonts are applied in HTML code using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or the deprecated HTML font element. In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ...

 <p style="font-family: times, serif">Sample text.</p>

Using the deprecated HTML font element code:

 <p><font face="times, serif">Sample text.</font></p>

It is common for publishers to define a list of font families to use when rendering text. These are listed in preferential order, separated by commas (as can be seen above). In this situation, the term 'font-family' (or, in the case of HTML, 'face') is often misunderstood to mean the collection of possible fonts to use when rendering the text (be it on screen, on a printer or otherwise). In fact the list is that of several different font families, each family being of similar fonts. Thus the Times family includes different styles (like roman and italic), and weight (like regular and bold). The last family specified is usually one of the five generic families defined in HTML and CSS, to allow the text to be rendered appropriately even if the specified fonts are not available on that system.

The generic font families defined in HTML and CSS are:

Serif:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Sans-serif:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Cursive:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Fantasy:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Monospace:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

(Under Windows API, they are identified as Roman, Swiss, Script, Decorative, and Modern, respectively). In typography, serifs are non-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. ... In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ... Cursive is any style of handwriting which is designed for writing down notes and letters by hand. ... The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is the name given by Microsoft to the core set of application programming interfaces (APIs) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. ...

There may be many other font families; however, you cannot expect them to be universally supported. Just see what your browser can make out of it:

Times:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Roman:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Garamond:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Palatino:	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:	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:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Fraktur:	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.
Frosty:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The actual appearance will depend on your browser and the fonts installed on your system. A default installation of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, for instance, always displays Serif and Times as Times New Roman, and Sans-serif and Helvetica as Arial. Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by The Times (London) newspaper in 1931 and designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent. ... Various examples of Garamond There are several typefaces called Garamond. ... A comparison of Linotype Palatino, Monotype Book Antiqua, and Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber (URW) Palladio L. Palatino is an old style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf, and released in 1948 by the Linotype foundry. ... A facsimile of Nicholas Jensons roman type used in Venice circa 1470. ... This article is about the typeface Helvetica. ... The German word Fraktur (pronounced in IPA) refers to a specific blackletter typeface. ... Comic Sans is a digital typeface from Microsoft Corporation designed to imitate comic book lettering, for use in casual and informal settings. ... Courier is a monospace font that resembles the output from a typewriter. ... An example of Calibri Regular, Bold and Italic Calibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface family, best known as the new default typeface for the Microsoft Office 2007 suite of applications. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer, abbreviated MSIE), commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of proprietary graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. ... The Times New Roman typeface, on top at 88. ... Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a typeface and a computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other Microsoft software applications, and many PostScript computer printers. ...

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