B.38. font-family
This property lets you set the typeface used to display text in an element. Like the HTML font tag, this property lets you specify a list of fonts, each of which will be tried in order.
If the first font is not available on the user's system, or if a particular character is not present in the font, the browser will check the second font in the list, and so on. This per-character fallback method (which is specified only as of CSS2, and is therefore not yet supported in all browsers) lets you create multilingual content and then list a font for each language; the browser should pick and choose characters from the fonts in the list, always giving preference to those listed first.
Any time you set this property, the font list ...
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