Editing Font family (HTML) (section)

== Generic fonts ==
{{main|Web typography#Generic font families}}
The ''font-family'' can use a specific named font (like ''Heisei Mincho W9''), but the result depends on the fonts installed on the user machine. The actual appearance will depend on the browser and the fonts installed on the system.<ref name="ccs-ref">{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#generic-font-families |title=Fonts |publisher=W3.org |access-date=2013-09-21}}</ref> A [[Default (computer science)|default installation]] of [[Firefox]] on [[Microsoft Windows]], for instance, will display both ''serif'' as [[Times New Roman]], and both ''sans-serif'' as [[Arial]].

Usually only a small subset of them, chiefly the Serif, Sans-serif, Monospace and Cursive<ref>very few web browsers, including [[Konqueror]], support changing Cursive</ref> are easily configurable by user in web browsers.

Many systems also perform special-cased ''font substitution'' to replace missing "well-known" families with [[metric-compatible]] alternatives. For example, Windows substitutes ''Helvetica'' with Arial, and ''Times'' with Times New Roman.<ref>{{cite web |title=Font Technology - Globalization |url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/input/font-technology |website=docs.microsoft.com |date=31 January 2022 |language=en-us}}</ref> These families are not generic in the CSS sense, and are generally not handled at the browser level.