@@ -485,13 +485,18 @@ <h3 id="font-family-prop">Font family: the <a href="#propdef-font-family">font-f
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486486< h4 id ="generic-font-families "> Generic font families</ h4 >
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488- < p > All five generic font families are defined to exist in all CSS
489- implementations (they need not necessarily map to five distinct actual
490- fonts). User agents should provide reasonable default choices for the
491- generic font families, which express the characteristics of each family
492- as well as possible within the limits allowed by the underlying
493- technology. User agents are encouraged to allow users to select
494- alternative choices for the generic fonts.</ p >
488+ < p > All five generic font families must always result in at least
489+ one matched font face, for all CSS implementations. However, the
490+ generics may be composite faces (with different typefaces based
491+ on such things as the Unicode range of the character, the language of the containing
492+ element, user preferences and system settings, among others). They are also
493+ not guaranteed to always be different from each other.</ p >
494+
495+ < p > User agents should provide reasonable default choices for the
496+ generic font families, which express the characteristics of each
497+ family as well as possible, within the limits allowed by the underlying
498+ technology. User agents are encouraged to allow users to select
499+ alternative choices for the generic fonts.</ p >
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496501< h5 class ="no-num no-toc "> < span class ="index-def " title ="serif, definition of "> < a name ="serif-def "> < dfn > serif</ dfn > </ a > </ span > </ h5 >
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