Chapter 10

Font Families

Contents

10.1 Style Sheet vs Inline Styling............ 99

10.1.1 class=......................... 99

10.1.2 Class Names..................... 100

10.2 What Is A Font?................... 100

10.2.1 Word Processing Font Choices........... 101

10.2.2 Web Page Font Choices............... 101

10.2.3 Raster vs Vector................... 102

10.2.4 Copyright and Knock-Offs.............. 102

10.2.5 Good News, Bad News................ 103

10.3 Five Generic Font Families............. 103

10.3.1 Serif.......................... 104

10.3.2 Sans-serif....................... 104

10.3.3 Monospace...................... 105

10.3.4 Cursive........................ 105

10.3.5 Fantasy........................ 106

10.4 The Font Stack.................... 106

10.5 Defending Against Missing Fonts......... 109

10.6 Web Fonts....................... 110

10.6.1 Google Web Fonts (Free).............. 110

10.6.2 Web Fonts: fonts.com (Paid)............ 111

10.7 Special Glyphs.................... 111

10.8 Font and Text Attributes.............. 113

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