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# kCMTextMarkupAttribute_GenericFontFamilyName

A generic font family name identifier.

```
let kCMTextMarkupAttribute_GenericFontFamilyName: CFString
```

## Discussion

This attribute’s value must be one of the constants listed below. You need to map generic fonts to the family name of an installed font before rendering and/or measuring text (see <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/MediaAccessibility>).

When the system specifies legible output, an attributed string has at most one of [`kCMTextMarkupAttribute_FontFamilyName`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupAttribute_FontFamilyName) or [`kCMTextMarkupAttribute_GenericFontFamilyName`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupAttribute_GenericFontFamilyName) associated with each character.

## Topics

### Font Names

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Default`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Default)

The default font.

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Serif`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Serif)

A font with serifs.

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_SansSerif`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_SansSerif)

A font without serifs.

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Monospace`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Monospace)

A monospaced font with or without serifs.

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_MonospaceSerif`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_MonospaceSerif)

A monospaced font with serifs.

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_MonospaceSansSerif`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_MonospaceSansSerif)

A monospaced font without serifs.

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_ProportionalSerif`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_ProportionalSerif)

A proportional font with serifs.

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_ProportionalSansSerif`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_ProportionalSansSerif)

A proportional font without serifs.

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_SmallCapital`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_SmallCapital)

A font with lowercase letters set as small capital letters.

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Casual`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Casual)

A casual font.

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Cursive`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Cursive)

A cursive font.

[`kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Fantasy`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupGenericFontName_Fantasy)

A fantasy font.


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