Font Types

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Generic family a group of font families with a similar look like serif or monospace font family a specific font family like times new roman or arial. Making the web more beautiful fast and open through great typography. The fonts presented on this website are their authors property and are either freeware shareware demo versions or public domain.

If you are seeing this message you probably have an ad blocker turned on. Download free fonts for windows and mac. Over the years typographers and scholars of typography have devised various systems to more definitively categorize typefaces some of these systems have scores of sub categories.

Serifs originated in the latin alphabet. In css there are two types of font family names. Serif fonts are typefaces composed of lines with their ends embellished with small marks or strokes making them easy to read.

Here we explain the different types of fonts and describe what characterizes each font family. The home of free fonts since 1998. An example of classic serif fonts are times roman new century gothic and palatino.