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So yo, this is what I found that I found Extremely Interesting. After Searching sites, and browsing articles on A List Apart, I stumbled upon CSS Font Designations, proposed by CSS 3.0. This is a proposal and nothing has been set in pure stone yet, at least I don't think. I know for sure though, it is possible to declare custom fonts in your CSS that are viewed from the computers font base. This means that if you want a font to be Fantasy, or Cursive, it is possible. All you have to do is declare "fantasy" or "cursive" as your font family. The computer does the rest, its that easy. You can also declare specific Fonts, but you risk the chance of a computer not having that Font.
So far to designate a font type or a family of fonts, in the css you use:
h1 {
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;
letter-spacing: 0.1em; }
This gives the h1 tag the family of Trebuchet MS, a san serif type face.
An example of using Script or Fantasy would be like this:
h1 {
font-family: cursive, fantasy, san-serif;
letter-spacing: 0.1em; }
These names for fonts are nothing but describers. But there is a trick, you can actually use a Font Name to be designated as the default. So if you had a font named, "old English", that font would be displayed if that computer held that font.