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[cpan://excel font] excel font -> Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Font, http://search.cpan.org/grep?cpanid=JMCNAMARA&release=Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.59&string=font&i=1&n=1&C=0 
my $oFont = $oWkC->{Format}->{Font};

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So with the name you might be able to correlate families to http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#generic-font-families

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Re^2: how to get the font family
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 11, 2012 at 15:29 UTC
    A font family is a font (e.g. Helvetica) and its variations such as bold, italic or oblique, or small-caps. So "Helvetica" is enough -- no need to refer to the CSS definition.
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