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font-family

The font-family CSS property specifies a prioritized list of one or more font family names and/or generic family names for the selected element.

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Values are separated by commas to indicate that they are alternatives. 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.

You should always include at least one generic family name in a font-family list, since there’s no guarantee that any given font is available. This lets the browser select an acceptable fallback font when necessary.

The font-family property specifies a list of fonts, from highest priority to lowest. Font selection does not stop at the first font in the list that is on the user’s system. Rather, font selection is done one character at a time, so that if an available font does not have a glyph for a needed character, the latter fonts are tried. When a font is only available in some styles, variants, or sizes, those properties may also influence which font family is chosen.

Syntax

/* A font family name and a generic family name */ font-family: "Gill Sans Extrabold", sans-serif; font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911", sans-serif; /* A generic family name only */ font-family: serif; font-family: sans-serif; font-family: monospace; font-family: cursive; font-family: fantasy; font-family: system-ui; font-family: ui-serif; font-family: ui-sans-serif; font-family: ui-monospace; font-family: ui-rounded; font-family: emoji; font-family: math; font-family: fangsong; /* Global values */ font-family: inherit; font-family: initial; font-family: revert; font-family: revert-layer; font-family: unset; 

The font-family property lists one or more font families, separated by commas. Each font family is specified as either a or a value.

The example below lists two font families, the first with a and the second with a :

font-family: "Gill Sans Extrabold", sans-serif; 

Values

The name of a font family. For example, «Times» and «Helvetica» are font families. Font family names containing whitespace should be quoted. For example: «Comic Sans MS».

Generic font families are a fallback mechanism, a means of preserving some of the style sheet author’s intent when none of the specified fonts are available. Generic family names are keywords and must not be quoted. A generic font family should be the last item in the list of font family names. The following keywords are defined:

Glyphs have finishing strokes, flared or tapering ends, or have actual serifed endings.

For example: Lucida Bright, Lucida Fax, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Palladio, URW Palladio, serif.

Glyphs have stroke endings that are plain.

For example: Open Sans, Fira Sans, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode, Trebuchet MS, Liberation Sans, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif.

All glyphs have the same fixed width.

For example: Fira Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono, Menlo, Consolas, Liberation Mono, Monaco, Lucida Console, monospace.

Glyphs in cursive fonts generally have either joining strokes or other cursive characteristics beyond those of italic typefaces. The glyphs are partially or completely connected, and the result looks more like handwritten pen or brush writing than printed letter work.

For example: Brush Script MT, Brush Script Std, Lucida Calligraphy, Lucida Handwriting, Apple Chancery, cursive.

Fantasy fonts are primarily decorative fonts that contain playful representations of characters.

For example: Papyrus, Herculanum, Party LET, Curlz MT, Harrington, fantasy.

Glyphs are taken from the default user interface font on a given platform. Because typographic traditions vary widely across the world, this generic is provided for typefaces that don’t map cleanly into the other generics.

The default user interface serif font.

The default user interface sans-serif font.

The default user interface monospace font.

The default user interface font that has rounded features.

This is for the particular stylistic concerns of representing mathematics: superscript and subscript, brackets that cross several lines, nesting expressions, and double struck glyphs with distinct meanings.

Fonts that are specifically designed to render emoji.

A particular style of Chinese characters that are between serif-style Song and cursive-style Kai forms. This style is often used for government documents.

Valid family names

Font family names must either be given quoted as strings, or unquoted as a sequence of one or more identifiers. This means that punctuation characters and digits at the start of each token must be escaped in unquoted font family names.

It is a good practice to quote font family names that contain white space, digits, or punctuation characters other than hyphens.

For example, the following declarations are valid:

font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911", sans-serif; 

The following declarations are invalid:

font-family: Goudy Bookletter 1911, sans-serif; font-family: Red/Black, sans-serif; font-family: "Lucida" Grande, sans-serif; font-family: Ahem!, sans-serif; font-family: test@foo, sans-serif; font-family: #POUND, sans-serif; font-family: Hawaii 5-0, sans-serif; 

The following example is technically valid but is not recommended:

font-family: Gill Sans Extrabold, sans-serif; 

Formal definition

Initial value	depends on user agent
Applies to	all elements. It also applies to ::first-letter and ::first-line .
Inherited	yes
Computed value	as specified
Animation type	discrete

Formal syntax

Examples

Some common font families

.serif  font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; > .sansserif  font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; > .monospace  font-family: "Lucida Console", Courier, monospace; > .cursive  font-family: cursive; > .fantasy  font-family: fantasy; > .emoji  font-family: emoji; > .math  font-family: math; > .fangsong  font-family: fangsong; > 

div class="serif">This is an example of a serif font.div> div class="sansserif">This is an example of a sans-serif font.div> div class="monospace">This is an example of a monospace font.div> div class="cursive">This is an example of a cursive font.div> div class="fantasy">This is an example of a fantasy font.div> div class="math">This is an example of a math font.div> div class="emoji">This is an example of an emoji font.div> div class="fangsong">This is an example of a fangsong font.div> 

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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CSS font-family Property

The font-family property specifies the font for an element.

The font-family property can hold several font names as a «fallback» system. If the browser does not support the first font, it tries the next font.

There are two types of font family names:

• family-name — The name of a font-family, like «times», «courier», «arial», etc.
• generic-family — The name of a generic-family, like «serif», «sans-serif», «cursive», «fantasy», «monospace».

Start with the font you want, and always end with a generic family, to let the browser pick a similar font in the generic family, if no other fonts are available.

Note: Separate each value with a comma.

Note: If a font name contains white-space, it must be quoted. Single quotes must be used when using the «style» attribute in HTML.

Default value:	depends on the browser
Inherited:	yes
Animatable:	no. Read about animatable
Version:	CSS1
JavaScript syntax:	object.style.fontFamily=»Verdana,sans-serif» Try it

Browser Support

The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.

CSS Syntax

Property Values

Value	Description	Demo
family-name / generic-family	A prioritized list of font family names and/or generic family names	Demo ❯
initial	Sets this property to its default value. Read about initial
inherit	Inherits this property from its parent element. Read about inherit

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CSS Web Fonts

Web fonts allow Web designers to use fonts that are not installed on the user’s computer.

When you have found/bought the font you wish to use, just include the font file on your web server, and it will be automatically downloaded to the user when needed.

Your «own» fonts are defined within the CSS @font-face rule.

Different Font Formats

TrueType Fonts (TTF)

TrueType is a font standard developed in the late 1980s, by Apple and Microsoft. TrueType is the most common font format for both the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

OpenType Fonts (OTF)

OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. It was built on TrueType, and is a registered trademark of Microsoft. OpenType fonts are used commonly today on the major computer platforms.

The Web Open Font Format (WOFF)

WOFF is a font format for use in web pages. It was developed in 2009, and is now a W3C Recommendation. WOFF is essentially OpenType or TrueType with compression and additional metadata. The goal is to support font distribution from a server to a client over a network with bandwidth constraints.

The Web Open Font Format (WOFF 2.0)

TrueType/OpenType font that provides better compression than WOFF 1.0.

SVG Fonts/Shapes

SVG fonts allow SVG to be used as glyphs when displaying text. The SVG 1.1 specification define a font module that allows the creation of fonts within an SVG document. You can also apply CSS to SVG documents, and the @font-face rule can be applied to text in SVG documents.

Embedded OpenType Fonts (EOT)

EOT fonts are a compact form of OpenType fonts designed by Microsoft for use as embedded fonts on web pages.

Browser Support for Font Formats

The numbers in the table specifies the first browser version that fully supports the font format.

Font format
TTF/OTF	9.0*	4.0	3.5	3.1	10.0
WOFF	9.0	5.0	3.6	5.1	11.1
WOFF2	14.0	36.0	39.0	10.0	26.0
SVG	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	3.2	Not supported
EOT	6.0	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported

*IE: The font format only works when set to be «installable».

Using The Font You Want

In the @font-face rule; first define a name for the font (e.g. myFirstFont) and then point to the font file.

Tip: Always use lowercase letters for the font URL. Uppercase letters can give unexpected results in IE.

To use the font for an HTML element, refer to the name of the font (myFirstFont) through the font-family property:

Example

@font-face <
font-family: myFirstFont;
src: url(sansation_light.woff);
>

div font-family: myFirstFont;
>

Using Bold Text

You must add another @font-face rule containing descriptors for bold text:

Example

The file «sansation_bold.woff» is another font file, that contains the bold characters for the Sansation font.

Browsers will use this whenever a piece of text with the font-family «myFirstFont» should render as bold.

This way you can have many @font-face rules for the same font.

CSS Font Descriptors

The following table lists all the font descriptors that can be defined inside the @font-face rule:

Descriptor	Values	Description
font-family	name	Required. Defines a name for the font
src	URL	Required. Defines the URL of the font file
font-stretch	normal condensed ultra-condensed extra-condensed semi-condensed expanded semi-expanded extra-expanded ultra-expanded	Optional. Defines how the font should be stretched. Default is «normal»
font-style	normal italic oblique	Optional. Defines how the font should be styled. Default is «normal»
font-weight	normal bold 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900	Optional. Defines the boldness of the font. Default is «normal»
unicode-range	unicode-range	Optional. Defines the range of UNICODE characters the font supports. Default is «U+0-10FFFF»

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