CSS Fonts
The CSS font properties define the font family, boldness, size, and the style of a text.
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.
Note: If the name of a font family is more than one word, it must be in quotation marks, like “Times New Roman”.
More than one font family is specified in a comma-separated list:
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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)
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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. MThe font-size value can be an absolute, or relative 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
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Font Weight:
The font-weight property specifies the weight of a font:
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All CSS Font Properties
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