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id: css-font-shorthand
title: "CSS Font Shorthand"
category: "Frontend"
status: "draft"
verification_status: "conceptual"
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aliases: ["font shorthand", "font property", "CSS font", "shorthand font", "font declaration"]
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source_trust_level: "B"
confidence_score: 0.9
created_at: 2026-06-23
updated_at: 2026-06-23
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merge_history: []
tags: ["css", "web", "frontend", "w3schools", "font", "typography", "shorthand"]
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---

# [[CSS Font Shorthand]]

## 🎯 한 줄 통찰 (One-line insight)
The `font` shorthand property lets you specify all individual font properties in a single declaration, where only `font-size` and `font-family` are required and the rest fall back to their defaults if omitted. [S1]

## 🧠 핵심 개념 (Core concepts)
- **Shorthand purpose** — to shorten the code, it is possible to specify all the individual font properties in one declaration. [S1]
- **Combined properties** — the `font` property combines `font-style`, `font-variant`, `font-weight`, `font-stretch`, `font-size`, `line-height`, and `font-family`. [S1]
- **Required values** — `font-size` and `font-family` are required; if one of the other values is missing, their default value is used. [S1]

## 🧩 추출된 패턴 (Extracted patterns)
- **Ordering rule (pre-size)** — if defined, `font-style`, `font-variant`, and `font-weight` must precede `font-size`. [S1]
- **Line-height placement** — if defined, `line-height` must immediately follow `font-size`, preceded by `/`, like this: `15px/30px`. [S1]
- **Family is last** — `font-family` must be the last value specified. [S1]

## 📖 세부 내용 (Details)
**To shorten the code**, it is possible to specify all the individual font properties in one declaration. The `font` property is a shorthand for: `font-style`, `font-variant`, `font-weight`, `font-stretch`, `font-size`, `line-height`, and `font-family`. [S1]

**Rules for the font shorthand:** [S1]
1. The `font-size` and `font-family` values are required. If one of the other values is missing, their default value is used.
2. If defined, `font-style`, `font-variant`, and `font-weight` must precede `font-size`.
3. If defined, `line-height` must immediately follow `font-size`, preceded by `/`, like this: `15px/30px`.
4. `font-family` must be the last value specified.

**Example — minimal (only required values):** [S1]
```css
p.a {
  font: 20px Arial, sans-serif;
}
```

**Example — with style and weight:** [S1]
```css
p.b {
  font: italic bold 16px Arial, sans-serif;
}
```

**Example — with variant and line-height:** [S1]
```css
p.c {
  font: italic small-caps bold 15px/30px Georgia, serif;
}
```

**CSS Font Properties** [S1]

| Property | Description |
|----------|-------------|
| `font` | Sets all font properties in one declaration |
| `font-family` | Specifies the font family for text |
| `font-size` | Specifies the font size of text |
| `font-style` | Specifies the font style for text |
| `font-variant` | Specifies whether text displays in small-caps font |
| `font-weight` | Specifies the weight of a font |

## 🛠️ 적용 사례 (Applied in summary)
The page's own examples apply the shorthand to paragraph classes (`p.a`, `p.b`, `p.c`), progressively adding style, weight, variant, and line-height. No external project/commit applications found in the source.

## 💻 코드 패턴 (Code patterns)
Font shorthand value order (language: CSS):
```css
selector {
  font: [font-style] [font-variant] [font-weight] font-size[/line-height] font-family;
}
```
Concrete example:
```css
p.c {
  font: italic small-caps bold 15px/30px Georgia, serif;
}
```

## ⚖️ 모순 및 업데이트 (Contradictions & updates)
No contradictions found in the source.

## ✅ 검증 상태 및 신뢰도
- **상태:** draft
- **검증 단계:** conceptual (실제 적용 사례 발견 시 applied/validated로 승격 가능)
- **출처 신뢰도:** B (W3Schools — widely used educational reference, not a primary standards body)
- **신뢰 점수:** 0.9
- **중복 검사 결과:** 신규 생성 (New discovery)

## 🔗 지식 그래프 (Knowledge Graph)
- **상위/루트:** [[CSS Tutorial]]
- **관련 개념:** [[CSS Fonts]], [[CSS Font Size]], [[CSS Text]], [[CSS Styling Lists]]
- **참조 맥락:** Referenced when condensing multiple font declarations into a single line for typography styling.

## 📚 출처 (Sources)
- [S1] W3Schools — CSS Font Shorthand — https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font_shorthand.asp

## 📝 변경 이력 (Change history)
- 2026-06-23: Initial draft synthesized from the W3Schools "CSS Font Shorthand" page (Astra wiki-curation, P-Reinforce v3.1 format).
