It lists some fall-back options and ends with a generic font in case the client has none of the hand-picked fonts installed. So, the second option you listed for font-family is a little bit more 'bulletproof'. Serif, sans-serif, monospace, cursive, fantasy There are about 1.063 picas to a cicero a pica is 4.23333333 mm and a cicero is 4.5 mm. The unit of the cicero is similar to an English pica, although the French inch was slightly larger than the English inch. It is 16 of the historical French inch, and is divided into 12 points, known in English as French points or Didot points. It is also considered best-practice to include a at the end of the list. The font size thus acquired the name cicero. These provisional default values will be active if you are using functions to write directly to the PDF file e.g. These are determined by: Declared when instantiating the mPDF class (see Getting Started). Quotation marks (or single-quotes) are traditionally used around multi-word font names or font names with numbers or symbols in them. A default font and font-size are required for mPDF to function. Using font-family: Arial is a pretty safe bet, since almost all computers have the Arial font, but to be safe it is best to include a couple of fall-back fonts. The browser will use the first one in the stack that it happens to recognize (installed on the computer). Font size may also be specified using Point, Pica, Inch, Centimeter, Millimeter, em, and percentage. Some of these dimensions include xx-small, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, and xx-large. The font-family property accepts a stack (comma-separated list) of font family names. With web design and CSS, font size changed based on a set of pre-determined font dimensions. The cm unit is used more often in stylesheets targeted at physical printed media. If that's really what you want, you could use the mozmm unit of measurement, although it is an experimental unit that is only supported by Firefox browsers. You should be aware, though, that 1cm rarely equals one true centimeter on screen, due to differing pixel densities on various displays. Always use point size 10 for Arial and 11 or 12 for Cal. This is because as a font Calibri has narrower side bearing, body (em-square) and letterspace. You can use cm (centimeters) as a unit for that property. But, Calibri allows you to fit in more content in the limited space than Arial for the same font size. As of the time of writing, the exhaustive list of these types (excluding experimental units) is:Įm, ex, ch, rem, vh, vw, vmin, vmax, px, mm, cm, in, pt, pc

The font-size property can accept values of type length.

Arial font sizes