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I am exploring what fallback font is, working under an article about Aspose.Slides product. I am curious to know how would someone explain what is fallback font, like I am five!😀🤔
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So basically fallback fonts are used when the current font isn't available. For example, if your CSS selector looked like this:
The website will basically parse this as:
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.
This article explains well 👉css-tricks.com/snippets/css/system...
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.