Font Families
Windows organizes fonts by family; a
family is a set of fonts having common stroke width and serif characteristics.
Windows categorizes families with five family names. A sixth name ("Dontcare")
allows an application to use the default font. The following table describes the
font-family names.
Font-family name
| Description
|
Decorative
| Specifies a novelty font. An example is Old English.
|
Dontcare
| Specifies a generic family name. This name is used when information about a
font does not exist or does not matter.
|
Modern
| Specifies a monospace font with or without serifs. Monospace fonts are usually
modern; examples include Pica, Elite, and Courier New®.
|
Roman
| Specifies a proportional font with serifs. An example is Times New Roman.
|
Script
| Specifies a font that is designed to look like handwriting; examples include
Script and Cursive.
|
Swiss
| Specifies a proportional font without serifs. An example is Arial.
|
These family names correspond to constants found in the WINGDI.H file:
FF_DECORATIVE, FF_DONTCARE, FF_MODERN, FF_ROMAN, FF_SCRIPT, and FF_SWISS. An
application uses these constants when it creates a font, selects a font, or retrieves
information about a font.
Fonts within a family are distinguished by size (10 point, 24 point, and so
on) and style (regular, italic, and so on).
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