Is it safe to use inherit in css font-family

Question

I want to use a special font for some HTML element text. But I want to set parent font style when failed rendering special font on browser.

Example CSS code:

.SmoothText {
    font-family: "Special Font name", inherit;
}

Is it safe or not to mix font name and inherit ?

Answer 1

inherit can only exist by itself as a value for any property. What you have is invalid.

If you want to add a font family to a parent font stack, you will need to specify the parent font stack again.

Answer 2

inherit is a property value which means that property takes its value from its parent.

IF you want to add font family to the parent ,font stack has your solution. See this Link