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In HTML and XHTML, a font face or font family is the typeface that is applied to some text. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure HTML has been in use since 1991, but HTML 40 (December 1997 was the first standardized version where international characters were given reasonably complete treatment Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated Web sites by using a combination of a static Markup An HTML editor is a software application for creating Web pages Although the HTML markup of a web page can be written with any Text editor, specialized In Computing, an HTML element indicates structure in an HTML document and a way of hierarchically arranging content HTML Series The W3C HTML standard includes support for Client-side scripting. A layout engine, or rendering engine, is software that takes marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files etc Quirks mode refers to a technique used by some Web browsers for the sake of maintaining backwards compatibility with Web pages designed for older browsers instead of Web style sheets are a form of Separation of presentation and content for Web design in which the markup (i Web pages authored using hypertext markup language ( HTML) may contain multilingual text represented with the Unicode universal character set. Web colors are Colors used in designing web pages and the methods for describing and specifying those colors The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, is a The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of Web browsers Please see the individual products' articles for further information The following tables compare HTML compatibility and support for a number of Layout engines Please see the individual products' articles for further information The following tables compare support of HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 for a number of Layout engines The specification is still a working draft not The following tables compare deprecated and proprietary HTML tags and attributes compatibility and support for a number of Layout engines Please see the individual products' articles for The following tables compare XHTML compatibility and support for a number of Layout engines Please see the individual products' articles for further information HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, is a

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 Computer software standards and documentation the term deprecation is applied to Software features that are superseded and should be avoided

<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. Origins & etymology Serifs are thought to have originated in the Roman alphabet with inscriptional lettering —words carved into stone in Roman antiquity
Sans-serif:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. History Ancient usages Sans-serif letter forms can be found in Latin Etruscan, and Greek inscriptions for as early as 5th century BC
Cursive:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. For the indie rock band see Cursive (band. Cursive is any style of handwriting that is designed for writing down notes and
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). The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of Application programming interfaces (APIs available in the Microsoft Windows Operating

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. Times New Roman is a Serif Typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times, in 1931, designed by Stanley
Roman:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Garamond:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Garamond is the name given to a group of old style serif Typefaces named for the punch-cutter Claude Garamond (c
Palatino:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 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
Antiqua:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Antiqua Typefaces are those designed between about 1470 and 1600 specifically those by Nicholas Jenson and the Aldine roman commissioned by Aldus Manutius
Minion:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Helvetica:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Helvetica is the name of a widely used Sans-serif Typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss Typeface designer Max Miedinger.
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. Blackletter, also known as Gothic script or Gothic minuscule, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150
Fraktur:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The German word Fraktur () refers to a specific sub-group of Blackletter Typefaces The word derives from the past participle fractus (“broken”
Comic Sans:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Comic Sans is a casual script Typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by the Microsoft Corporation.
Modern:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Courier:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Courier is a monospaced Slab serif typeface designed to resemble the output from a strike-on typewriter
Calibri:	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Calibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface family under the Microsoft ClearType Font Collection
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. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer abbreviated MSIE) commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of graphical Times New Roman is a Serif Typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times, in 1931, designed by Stanley Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a Sans-serif Typeface and Computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other

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