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How are fonts assigned?

The old days of the internet allowed for font to be assigned at each block with the code

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"/>.

The modern way to do this, though the old way will work for years to come is through css, so that would be:
So this paragraph is assigned through

<div class="blacktext"/></p/>

The css code is:
.blacktext {
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 9pt;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
}

Limitations and workarounds

The choice of font styles over the web are tiny compared with that for print, dozens rather than thousands. There are options to modify these to create variants of these fonts. The options are: italics (em), embodening (strong), font-weight, letter-spacing and colour (color). - further info -
There are 5 basic font families, one of which is fantasy, and since that is merely for decorative purposes this is ignored here. The remaining 4 are:
Serif, Sans Serif, Cursive, Monospace (mimics typewritten output).

Browser complications

All the basic font styles will be displayed identically in the various browsers, however there is a class of newer introduced font styles that will be shown in default style (usually Arial) in some of the browsers or the early versions of browsers. So compliance isn't universal, the table below will show what works and doesn't work in your browser. For extra guidance, I am also including screen shots of the table below in various major browsers, though again, this isn't comprehensive as many people stick with old versions of these browsers.

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