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

Fonts Stylesheet

Many developers will move the font import statements into their own CSS file, fonts.css. These allow the main CSS file to appear cleaner.

If you plan on doing a lot with fonts, you should have a separate fonts.css in your /css directory, to separate site styling from font styling.

IMPORTANT: The fonts.css file should be linked before the style.css file in <head> of any HTML page. This is important in allowing the latter file to ‘see’ the fonts.

CSS

<head>
  <title>...</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/fonts.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/style.css">
</head>