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Wang Lei
2,766 Pointshow to understand the 'sans-serif' code in property font-family?
Hi there,
What's the specific meaning on 'sans-serif'?
4 Answers
Konstantinos Chantzis
3,273 PointsSANS-SERIF is a generic type of fonts. When you specify the "font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif;" in your css, you tell the browser to use 'Changa One' as the font family. If it doesn't exsist in the computer system use a generic sans-serif font. There are also other generic type of fonts like Serif fonts, display fonts, monospace fonts and handwriting fonts.
Wang Lei
2,766 Pointsyes? when I type the font-family, why 'Changa One', sans-serif? or sometimes, 'Changa One, cursive? What does that mean? Just two different fonts?
Thanks.
Jude Molloy
7,470 PointsChanga One is in brackets as there are two separate words in the name of the font and some fonts can have the attribute cursive which means the characters are joined together. :) Hope this helped if you have any other questions let me know :)
Lolo Handricks
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,706 PointsHi Wang, Have a read of this wikipedia page too, it explains what 'Serif' and 'Sans' specifically mean Serif on Wikipedia. Hopefully this helps a little too.
Jude Molloy
7,470 Pointssans-serif is the name of a font :)