I didn’t even know that fonts can be categorized into a couple of letterforms, Serif, Sans Serif and Mono(Monospace), until today… Let’s from where I started. A guy’s handling a font related issue this morning. And I just wanted to figure out how to find which font the browser would fall in when all fonts specified in CSS weren’t installed on the client. Then I binged this page and after navigating to the page above, the table below surfaced:
| OS | Browser | Sans-serif | Serif | Mono |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | IE | Arial | Times New Roman | Courier New |
I was confused by the last three columns which were Sans-serif, Serif and Mono. Familiar, huh? After digging in a little bit. As we already know, those are categories of fonts. A Serif Typeface is a font with a small line attached to the end of each stroke. Like Georgia,、Times New Roman. A Sans-serif Typeface is a font without any line attached to the end of each stroke. From the French sans, meaning “without”. Like Arial, Tahoma, Verdana. A Monospace Typeface, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. Like Courier, Courier New, Lucida Console, Monaco, Consolas and Inconsolata. More detail please refer to https://kb.cnblogs.com/page/192018/
P.S: it seems that cnblogs is in trouble which led the site went down…