Font Styling + Webfonts
Learn to use typefaces in CSS and load new typefaces into the browser.
There are many CSS properties we can use on text-based elements to give the text different stylizations.
Changing font styles
You can change the font of your text using the font-family
property.
If a font name contains spaces, then it must be wrapped in quotation marks (e.g. "Times New Roman"
) in order to be rendered properly.
Web-safe fonts
When a browser loads a web page, it will apply the font specified in font-family
only if the font is loaded on the system. What do we mean by this? Running the same web page on a Windows desktop, an Android mobile device, or a Mac OS X laptop ...