The 'fantasy' generic font family was added so that authors would have
one more generic font name to chose from. 'serif', sans-serif', and
'monospace' are more obvious names, but computers -- even back in 1995
-- typically had some fonts that didn't fit into these bins. Another
name would have been 'display', or 'handwriting', perhaps. I believe
'fantasy' was chosen to have room for anything that didn't fit the
other bins.

Cheers, H&kon

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Yes, fantasy is a category for fonts for special usages. You might use it
for titles, but not for body text or anything that is longer than a few
words.

Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>