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 ]); // => { fontFamily: 'Helvetica', ... }
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-We don't provide a way to get these style tuples in this library, so you'll need to do that yourself. I expect most people will use postCSS or another CSS parser. You should try avoid getting these with `string.split`, as that has a lot of edge cases (colons and semi-colons apearing in comments etc.)
+We don't provide a way to get these style tuples in this library, so you'll need to do that yourself. I expect most people will use postCSS or another CSS parser. You should try avoid getting these with `string.split`, as that has a lot of edge cases (colons and semi-colons appearing in comments etc.)
 
 For implementors, there is also a few extra APIs available.