Editing Font family (HTML) (section)

== Font name as family name ==
Although CSS tries to define a font family as the same as a typeface, the {{code|font-family}} entry and its non-standard HTML predecessor has also historically been used to identify the entire ''font face''. This usage is due to [[font file]]s not describing themselves as part of a family, partially motivated by the fact that few editors at the time supported the selection among more than four font styles (bold/regular and italics/regular).

As a result, it used to be common to see declarations such as {{code|font-family: 'Gill Sans Extrabold', 'Heisei Mincho W9'}} in place of the pedantically correct {{code|font-family: 'Gill Sans', 'Heisei Mincho'; font-weight: 900}}. Neither CSS2 nor CSS3 endorse such a use (they are not found in examples), but most browsers accept them as valid "names" nevertheless.