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Fonts and Text

Fonts Vs Text

Fonts and Text are two different things. Fonts are all the different kinds of typefaces andhow they appear visually, or design wise with a specific set of letters, numbers, and symbols belonging to each unique typeface. Text is any set of letters/characters and/or words.The text is what you apply your fonts to.

Fonts

There are six properties related to font styling. These six properties are: font-family, font-size, font-style, font-weight, font-variant, and font (shorthand). Each of these properties allows you to manipulate the apearence of your text, by changing things like the specific font you woul dlike to apply, the size of any given text, and more.

Text

There are several properties to manipulate text including, bu tnot limited to: text-indent, letter-spacing, word-spacing, text-decoration, text-align, line-height, text-transform, and vertical-align. These properties are the most useful, or commonly used CSS properties and do things like adjust your kerning (letter spacing), add indents (for paragraphs) and adjust your leading (line height). You can use these properties in conjunction with font properties to get the desired look for your text.