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<h4 id="generic-font-families">
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Generic font families</h4>
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- All five generic font families are defined to exist in all CSS
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- implementations (they need not necessarily map to five distinct actual
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- fonts). User agents should provide reasonable default choices for the
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- generic font families, which express the characteristics of each family
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- as well as possible within the limits allowed by the underlying
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+ All nine generic font families must always result in at least
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+ one matched font face, for all CSS implementations. However, the
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+ generics may be composite faces (with different typefaces based
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+ on such things as the Unicode range of the character, the language of the containing
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+ element, user preferences and system settings, among others). They are also
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+ not guaranteed to always be different from each other.
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+ User agents should provide reasonable default choices for the
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+ generic font families, which express the characteristics of each
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+ family as well as possible, within the limits allowed by the underlying
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technology. User agents are encouraged to allow users to select
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alternative choices for the generic fonts.
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