What is fallback font?
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Fallback (noun) - A fallback plan or position can be used if other plans do not succeed or other things are not available. - dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionar...
So basically fallback fonts are used when the current font isn't available. For example, if your CSS selector looked like this:
h1 {
font-family: 'Roboto', 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
The website will basically parse this as:
- Is 'Roboto' available? No? Try the next one.
- Is 'Open Sans' available? No? Try the next one.
- Is Helvetica available? No? Try the next one.
- Is Arial available? No? Try the next one.
- Final fall-back to genetic sans-serif font.
As soon as it finds a font which is available, it will stop. So if Helvetica was available, it would simply stop there and show that font.
Final fallback's should always be generic types, e.g.
- serif
- sans-serif
- cursive
- monospace
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A fallback font is a font which will be used if your other choices aren't usable, for example in css if we want one font we would write:
font-family: font-name;
but we can also set fallback fonts which would be:
font-family: font-1, font-2, font-3;
If Font 1 isn't available, font-2 would be used, and so on.
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