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

Font Variant

There are two properties that allow developers to set the capitalization of text. The first is font-variant. This property allows developers to specify whether text should appear in all caps, with ‘non-capitalized’ letters being displayed as small caps.

CSS

* {
  font-variant: normal;
}

font-variant: accepts these term values:

normal (default)
small-caps (display 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.