Why would font names need quotes?

Question

As far as I know, one needs to use double or single quotes for fonts if they contain spaces, like:

font-family: \"Times New Roman\", Times; 
font-family: \'T         


        

Answer 1

For two reasons;

1. When an actual font-family name shares the same name as a generic family name, to avoid confusion with keywords with the same names e.g.

p {font-family: 'Shift', sans-serif;}

2. When there are more than one word in a font-family name e.g.

p {font-family: 'Times New Roman', ..... , a generic family name here ;}