The font-family property specifies the font to use for text.
The value can be any number of font names.
All but the first font are fallback fonts.
A fallback will be used if the first font is not supported.
Text using the Gill Sans font.
Text using the Gill Sans font.
<p style="font-family: 'Gill Sans', 'Gill Sans MT',
Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif">
Text using the Gill Sans font.
</p>
The font-family property accepts one or more font names.
All but the first font are fallback fonts.
Two font-family naming conventions are supported:
family-name - for example, "Courier", "Arial", "Times", and more.generic-family - for example, "serif", "sans-serif", "monospace", and more.Some commonly used font-families.
| Font families |
|---|
| Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif |
| Courier New, Courier New, monospace |
| Georgia, serif |
| Lucida Console, Monaco, monospace |
| Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif |
| Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif |
| Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif |
| Times New Roman, Times New Roman, Times, serif |
| Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet MS, sans-serif |
| Verdana, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif |
font-family: family-name | generic-family |
initial | inherit;
| Property | Values | Description |
|---|---|---|
font-family |
family-name generic-family |
List of font-family names |
initial |
Sets the value to its default value. | |
inherit |
Inherits the value from its parent element. | |
This table shows when font-family support started for each browser.
 Chrome
|
1.0 | Dec 2008 |
 Firefox
|
1.0 | Nov 2004 |
 IE/Edge
|
4.0 | Sep 1997 |
 Opera
|
3.5 | Nov 1998 |
 Safari
|
1.0 | Jun 2003 |
