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You can use a wider selection than the “safe” fonts using several methods outlined in the CSS Advanced Tutorial but if you’re just getting to grips with CSS, we suggest sticking with this basic standard approach for the moment. Note: if the name of a font is more than one word, it should be put in quotation marks, such as font-family: "Times New Roman". So font-family: arial, helvetica, serif, will look for the Arial font first and, if the browser can’t find it, it will search for Helvetica, and then a common serif font. This is useful because different computers sometimes have different fonts installed. The purpose of this is that if the user does not have the first font you specify, the browser will go through the list until it finds one it does have.
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There are a select few “ safe” fonts (the most commonly used are Arial, Verdana and Times New Roman), but you can specify more than one font, separated by commas. The user’s browser has to be able to find the font you specify, which, in most cases, means it needs to be on their computer so there is little point in using obscure fonts that are only sitting on your computer.