CSS Fonts

CSS Font property is used to control the look of texts. By the use of CSS font property you can change the text size, color, style and more. You have already studied how to make text bold or underlined. Here, you will also know how to resize your font using percentage.The CSS font properties define the font family, boldness, size, and the style of a text.

These are some important font attributes:

1. CSS Font color: This property is used to change the color of the text. (standalone attribute)
2. CSS Font family: This property is used to change the face of the font.
3. CSS Font size: This property is used to increase or decrease the size of the font.
4. CSS Font style: This property is used to make the font bold, italic or oblique.
5. CSS Font variant: This property creates a small-caps effect.
6. CSS Font weight: This property is used to increase or decrease the boldness and lightness of the font.

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 -

p { font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; }

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CSS Font Color

CSS font color is a standalone attribute in CSS although it seems that it is a part of CSS fonts. It is used to change the color of the text.

There are three different formats to define a color:

• By a color name
• By hexadecimal value
• By RGB

Example -

body { font-size: 100%; } h1 { color: red; } h2 { color: #9000A1; } p { color:rgb(0, 220, 98); } }

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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)

Example -

p.normal { font-style: normal; } p.italic { font-style: italic; } p.oblique { font-style: oblique; }

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CSS 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.

Example -

<p style="font-size:xx-small;"> This font size is extremely small.</p> <p style="font-size:x-small;"> This font size is extra small</p> <p style="font-size:small;"> This font size is small</p> <p style="font-size:medium;"> This font size is medium. </p> <p style="font-size:large;"> This font size is large. </p> <p style="font-size:x-large;"> This font size is extra large. </p> <p style="font-size:xx-large;"> This font size is extremely large. </p> <p style="font-size:smaller;"> This font size is smaller. </p> <p style="font-size:larger;"> This font size is larger. </p> <p style="font-size:200%;"> This font size is set on 200%. </p> <p style="font-size:20px;"> This font size is 20 pixels. </p>

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Set Font Size With Pixels

Setting the text size with pixels gives you full control over the text size:

Example -

h1 { font-size: 40px; } h2 { font-size: 30px; } p { font-size: 14px; }

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CSS Font Variant

CSS font variant property specifies how to set font variant of an element. It may be normal and small-caps.The font-variant property specifies whether or not a text should be displayed in a small-caps font.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.

Example -

p { font-variant: small-caps; } h3 { font-variant: normal; }

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Font Weight

CSS font weight property defines the weight of the font and specify that how bold a font is. The possible values of font weight may be normal, bold, bolder, lighter or number (100, 200..... upto 900).

Example -

p.normal { font-weight: normal; } p.thick { font-weight: bold; }

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