font-family not loading?

So, !important worked, I'm not sure why. One note, I took out the extra families, it looks like this now:

body, body * {
font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif !important;
}

But changing that had nothing to do with fixing it. The !important fixed it. Even though there isn't anything else changing the font-family at any other point in the CSS (refer to the working JS Fiddle). I attached a screenshot of the developer tools to show the inheritance.

some font-families have to be enabled using `font-face, usually u do something like this

@font-face {
    font-family: 'alex_brushregular';
    src: url('alexbrush-regular-otf-webfont.eot');
    src: url('alexbrush-regular-otf-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('alexbrush-regular-otf-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('alexbrush-regular-otf-webfont.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;

}

body {

font-family: 'alex_brushregular', Arial, "sans-serif";

}

have you tried to select following?

body, body * {
    font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", "DejuVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif;
} /* this affects every element in the body and the body itself */

/* OR just */
* {
    font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", "DejuVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", sans-serif;
} /* this affects every element */

here is what you can do with CSS3: http://www.css3.info/preview/web-fonts-with-font-face/

This is an old post, but in case people have the same kind of problems and ended up here, I would suggest you make sure no errors in your css file (the easiest way to check is to comment out all settings except the font family or replace the css file with one that has just the font family setting). I just had the same problem and found the cause, after hours of frustration and no solutions from googling (that's why I came to this post; adding important! didn't work for me), was an error in my css file, so the browser skipped some settings including the font family. Although there're no errors in the css text shown in the original post, there might be one in the real css file.