Cursive Font Family

There are five families of fonts:

Serif Family
Sans-serif Family
Monospace Family
Cursive Family
Fantasy Family

Cursive Family
Handwritten types of fonts are in Cursive Font Family.

Fantasy Font Family

There are five families of fonts:

Serif Family
Sans-serif Family
Monospace Family
Cursive Family
Fantasy Family

Fantasy Family

Stylish decorative fonts are in Fantasy Font Family.

Monospace Font Family

There are five families of fonts:

Serif Family
Sans-serif Family
Monospace Family
Cursive Family
Fantasy Family

Monospace Family

Fonts having constant width glyph are in the Monospace Font Family. People generally use these fonts to show computer code.

Sans-serif Font Family

There are five families of fonts:

Serif Family
Sans-serif Family
Monospace Family
Cursive Family
Fantasy Family

Sans-serif Family

The fonts that have no serif are in Sans-serif Family. These fonts are very good for reading on a computer screen. See the following picture for example. Sans-serif means “without serif”. 

Serif Font Family

There are five families of fonts:

Serif Family
Sans-serif Family
Monospace Family
Cursive Family
Fantasy Family

Serif Family

Serif is not a name of font. The fonts having serifs in the glyph are in Serif Family. These fonts are good for printing especially for news paper. You can see the barbs and hooks on the ends of the letters in the following picture; these are called serif.