What fonts can be put on fallbacks?

Question

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What kind of multi-platform cross-browser fonts exist?
It's about what to put on fallbacks. Here's an example:
font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif;
But serif is, in my humble opinion, one of the ugliest things on the planet. What are the alternatives? sans-serif, monospace - what else can be set, and what will be displayed the same everywhere? Is there a list of universal fonts that are in all operating systems?

Answer 1

There are no such universal fonts. Windows has its own set, Mac has its own, Linux has its own. And in Bucket, Chrome and Chanterelle have different fonts.
Any chain must end with serif, sans-serif or monospace fonts - these are standard browser fonts. The browser will apply them if it does not find others. And, of course, serif / monospace on small sizes is undesirable (there is a risk that they will look bad).
HTML is made (at least initially) so that it somehow renders on any device, perhaps with a reversal. It may turn out that the browser (for example, mobile) does not support external fonts at all, and has two or three of the internal ones.
The ideal is to make the page so that it reads normally on a “foreign” font.