typography field doesn't list standard font-families (Arial, Verdana ...

[kmob2]

This is a follow up to issue #1189 - It's closed but I can't seem to open it again.

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Hello aristath,

Sorry for opening this up again. I'm only just now continuing the typography on my theme.

I am very confused on why you would group the standard fonts together by "style".
Serif is not a font (typeface) by itself. Serif refers to if a font has a stroke a in their symbols or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif - Respectively sans serif is without the stroke.

Grouping them all together doesn't really make sense to me, since they are all completely different looking fonts.
In css using font-family, if you have multiple fonts listed, they work as backups.

Example: font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
The browser first looks if the font Times New Romand is available, if nothing is found, then it looks for Times (which is similar), if again nothing is found, then it looks for all fonts styles that use serif.

The way the typography field currently is in kirki, is that if I select sans serif it outputs 'Monaco,"Lucida Sans Typewriter","Lucida Typewriter","Courier New",Courier,monospace', which are a group of completely different looking fonts, and since only the first one is being used by the browser, because they rest acts as backups, I have no way of selecting for example Courier New.

I really think all the standard web fonts as listed here: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp should have their own selection field in the drop down. This current way of grouping them together is not really the way the fonts should be used.

[aristath]

Replied on #1189 (comment)