Claire Dushane | Summary 5 - Stylin' Fonts and Text

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Summary 5

Font- Size Property

Every HTML has a default font-size. Font sizes appear has the ability to act unpredictably. There are two types of units that can. be used to set the font sizes: absolut untis and such relative units. Absolute units are pixels or points, ande relaitve units are percentages or ems.


Text Properties

The point of text properties is to create more space between each letter of a headline and many other types of possible formatting that can be used. Some examples of this in CSS properties would be: text- indent, letter spacin, word spacing, text-decoration, text-align, line-height, text-transform, and vertical-align. The tags used (sup and sub) to create superscript or subscript text automatically.


Stylin' Text on a Grid

When using a grid to help plan the overall layout of your design it is easier to establish a visual glow. It is because of this we look at the vertical flow of text. One of the most important attributes of the use of grids would then be how we understand line-height to the grid distance.