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A: If you specify any named font, you can be sure that some computers will not have it, which is why Cascading Style Sheets are designed to name a series of alternative fonts and a common generic font family. If your preferred font is a sans serif type, look-up other sans serif fonts that are available on other platforms. Use the Code Style font sampler to choose alternative fonts that look similar to your preferred font, see the sans serif font sampler for instance.

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