Locally change the font family [closed]

Question

I'm using the standard Wordpress theme (WordPress Default 1.6 by Michael Heilemann).

The standard font for my articles is a sans-serif font.

I'd like to display, for a sentence only, a serif font (Times for instance).

I didn't find a way to do this. Is it possible ?

Answer 1

This is not really a WordPress question but I'll answer it anyway. The first thing you need to know is CSS is your friend. You'll want to do something like this:

In style.css
.serif-class {font-family: "Times", "Times New Roman", serif;}

Then using the html view inside of your post:
<span class="serif-class"> This is an important sentence </span>

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Answer 2

Alternatively - if you will use it just one time - you could take the following code within the edit post window:

<span class="serif-class" style="font-family: "Times", "Times New Roman", serif;">a sentence only</span>