A font can be applied to any piece of text from a single letter, a word, a sentence, a paragraph or an entire web page. You control the fonts with the following options:
Font Family: A font family is a set of fonts with similar characteristics, grouped together. It may include different font sizes, styles (roman and italic), and weight (regular and bold). A browser can only apply fonts that exist on the local system. The browser searches the prioritized list of font families looking for the first available installed font.
The Font Family list contains predefined font families followed by all system fonts installed on the local computer. If you know the font is available on the machines where the content is viewed, simply select it from the list; for example, if your organization has Arial installed, by default, on all machines. In situations where you are not sure what fonts are installed, you can select a font family. This helps ensure the content displays in the proper font.
Font Size: Setsthe font size of the selected text. You can enter a numeric value or choose from the list of predefined font sizes (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24, 32, 36, 48, 72) or font size keywords; xx-small, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, xx-large. The Inherit option allows the font size to be inherited from the style.
Note: The size of keywords is based on font sizes that are scaled to approximately 1.2 of the medium size as interpreted by the browser. Also note that the keyword sizes for fonts in a document (print) output are not identical to the browser sizes. Microsoft Word uses a slightly different interpretation when scaling keywords.
Font Unit: Unit (points or pixels) associated with the value in the Font size field. The default unit is points.
Note: If you are using a style sheet, you can create separate looks for online and print deployments by adding print styles. A print style is a component of a style, but can contain different font and formatting settings that are used only when previewing or publishing a document output. See Add Print and Language Variations under Create Styles in the Create Styles to Format Content chapter for more information about creating print styles.