CSS Fonts, Decorating and Alignment

Topic Overview

Typography

Typography Typefaces Font Categories TODO

Using Fonts

The font-family Property Fallback Fonts and Stacks Making Font Choices TODO

Sizing

Setting Size Fixed Size Relative Size Using Sizes TODO

Adding Meaning

Setting Bold and Italic Font Weight Font Style Using Weights and Styles TODO

Decorating

Font Variant Text Transform Text Decoration TODO

Spacing

"Space: The Final Font-tier..." Leading Kerning Tracking Word Spacing TODO

Alignment

Horizontal Alignment Vertical Alignment Indentation TODO

Pseudos

Pseudo-Selectors Pseudo-Elements Pseudo-Classes Setting States TODO

Self-Hosted Fonts

Including Fonts Fonts Directory Fonts Stylesheet The @font-face Selector Family Source Other Properties The @font-face Rule TODO

Library-Hosted Fonts

Sourcing Fonts Navigating Google Fonts Option A - Downloading Fonts Option B - Standard Embeds Option C - @import Embeds TODO

Source

@font-face {
font-family: '...';
src: url('#') format('...');
font-weight: ;
font-style: ;
}

The source property (src: url() format()) tells the browser where to load the font from via the url() function, and what type of font it is via the format() function.

As with audio and video, not every browser is capable of reading and using every type/format of font. Therefore, you will need to include multiple types of fonts in order to cover support for all browsers.

Common font file-extentions and their formats are:

.ttf - TrueType Fonts, format('truetype')
.otf - OpenType Fonts, format('opentype')
.woff - Web Open Font Format, format('woff')
.woff2 -Web Open Font Format 2.0, format('woff2')
.svg - SVG Fonts/Shapes, format('svg')
.eot - Embedded OpenType Fonts