Default Fonts

Your current default fonts

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- Examples of the fonts that your browser/computer delivers when each of the following generic font names are specified in css.
  - Below, the default font name is followed by the declaration being used to apply it to the text.
- serif
  - font-family: serif;
- sans-serif
  - font-family: sans-serif;
- monospace
  - font-family: monospace;
  - Each monospace character has the same width and will be in the same column as the characters in the rows above and/or beneath:
    - WWWWW
    - iiiii
  - The same characters using a serif font: one "W" is as wide as four or five "i" characters:
    - WWWWW
    - iiiii
- cursive
  - font-family: cursive;
  - Cursive fonts are suggestive of hand written text.
- fantasy
  - font-family: fantasy;
  - Fantasy fonts are decorative.
  - The resulting font and appearance are hard to predict.
  - It is not advisable to rely on them for critical designs.

Note to Mac users:
- Internet Explorer for the Mac has not been supported for many years.
Internet Explorer 8
- See the video
Internet Explorer 7
1. Tools menu >
2. Internet Options >
3. General tab >
4. Appearance section (at the bottom) >
5. Fonts >
  - Webpage font
  - Plain text font (used for monospace text)