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Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.



On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:52:33AM -0800, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
>     From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
>     Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:57:24 +0100
> > If all you want is a serif font and care to be portable, your best
> > choice will be to specify a generic "serif", like so:
> > 
> >   font-family: serif
> 
> Will try that, thanks.  
> 
> Really, two attributes are involved: serifing and spacing.
> Specification of both should be possible.  Eg. 
> font-family: serif & monospace
> font-family: sans-serif & monospace
> font-family: serif & varispace
> font-family: sans-serif & varispace

Note that in this context, 'serif' isn't an attribute, but a "generic
font family". Namely the one where you'll find Times and sisters.

So unless the browser is downright malicious it'll pick a non-monospaced
font. If it's malicious, its user will hopefully know...

Cheers
 - t

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