I interpreted abraham's comment as "Right, it's just like the font tag, but the font tag is deprecated, so we use this instead". Implicit in my original comment

I interpreted abraham's comment as "Right, it's just like the font tag, but the font tag is deprecated, so we use this instead". Implicit in my original comment was that "everybody knows the font tag is a bad idea so this is a bad idea too", which I think abraham missed. That being said, apparently I'm wrong and this style is back in vogue. CSS Zen garden style design has just failed hard apparently, so this is how things are done.