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RE: [css-d] font-family: sans-serif -- what font am I seeing?

Sent by Peter Williams on 8 August 2002 11:11


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francois Jordaan
>
>   font-family: sans-serif;
> ...on most PCs I've used, you get a font quite similar to Franklin Gothic:
>
> Does this font have a name? Which font, installed on my PC, is the browser
> displaying when specifying font-family: sans-serif?
>

I tested this on my Win XP IE6 setup,

Specified;
 - sans-serif
 - MS Sans Serif
 - Arial
 - Franklin Gothic Medium
 - System

The match was sans-serif and Arial on my system. All the fonts are
present on the test system.

--
Peter Williams
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