In addition to local fonts, modern web browsers support linking custom font files directly by using the declaration. This may be for personal taste reasons, but may also be because of some physical limitation of the user, such as the need for a larger font size or the avoidance of certain colors.
Depending on the web browser, a user can in fact override the font defined by the code writer. In the absence of a font being found, the web browser will use its default font, which may be a user-defined one. To avoid unexpected results, the last font family on the font list should be one of the generic families which are by default always available. In both HTML and CSS, the list is separated by commas. The CSS term font face is matched with "font" it is decided by a combination of the font family and the additional properties. A font is a particular set of glyphs (character shapes), differentiated from other fonts in the same family by additional properties such as stroke weight, slant, relative width, etc. The CSS term font family is matched with the typographical term typeface, which is a grouping of fonts defined by shared design styles. element with its face attribute, and in the CSS font-family property. The family selection is available in two forms: in the deprecated (X)HTML. The font family selection in (X)HTML, CSS, and derived systems specifies a list of prioritized fonts and generic family names in conjunction with correlating font properties, this list determines the particular font face used to render characters.