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CSS Font

CSS Fonts
The CSS font properties define the font
family, boldness, size, and the style of a text.
CSS Font Families
In CSS, there are two types of font family names:
generic family - a group of font families with a similar look (like "Serif" or
"Monospace")
font family - a specific font family (like "Times New Roman" or "Arial")
Example
Font Family
The font-family of a text is set with the font-family property
The font – family property should hold several font names as a "fallback" system. If the
browser does not support the first font, it tries the next font, and so on.
Start with the font you want, and end with a generic family, to let the browser pick a similar
font in the generic family, if no other fonts are available.
Example
Specify the font for three paragraphs:
Example
Specify the "Impact" font for a paragraph:
Font Style
The font-style property is mostly used to specify italic text.
This property has three values:
normal - The text is shown normally
italic - The text is shown in italics
oblique - The text is "leaning" (oblique is very similar to italic, but less supported)
Example
Font Weight
The font-weight property specifies the
weight of a font:
Font Variant

The font-variant property specifies whether or


not a text should be displayed in a small-caps font.
Example
In a small-caps font, all lowercase letters are converted to
uppercase letters. However, the converted uppercase letters appears in a
smaller font size than the original uppercase letters in the text.
Font Size
The font-size property sets the size of the text.
Being able to manage the text size is important in web design. However, you should not use font
size adjustments to make paragraphs look like headings, or headings look like paragraphs.
Always use the proper HTML tags, like <h1> - <h6> for headings and <p> for paragraphs.
The font-size value can be an absolute, or relative size.
Font Size
Absolute size:
Sets the text to a specified size
Does not allow a user to change the text size in all browsers (bad for accessibility reasons)
Absolute size is useful when the physical size of the output is known
Relative size:
Sets the size relative to surrounding elements
Allows a user to change the text size in browsers
Set Font Size With Pixels

Setting the text size with pixels gives you


full control over the text size:
Example
Set Font Size With Em
To allow users to resize the text (in the browser menu), many developers use em instead of pixels.
The em size unit is recommended by the W3C.
1em is equal to the current font size. The default text size in browsers is 16px. So, the default size of 1em is 16px.
The size can be calculated from pixels to em using this formula: pixels/16=em
Example
Use a Combination of Percent and Em

The solution that works in all browsers, is to set


a default font-size in percent for the <body> element:
Example
Responsive Font Size

The text size can be set with a vw unit, which means the "viewport width".
That way the text size will follow the size of the browser window:
Example
Font Shorthand
To shorten the code, it is also possible to specify
all the individual font properties in one property.
Example
Set some font properties with the
shorthand declaration:
Activities
Activity #1
S  et the font family for the page to "Courier
New", and the font family for <h1> to "Verdana".
Activity #2
 Show <p> elements as "italic" text.
Activity #3
S  et the font size for the page to "20px", and
the font size for <h1> to "3em".
Activity #4
 Show <p> elements as "bold" text.
Activity #
 With the font property: Set the <p> to
"italic", "20px" and "Verdana".

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