THE LOOK OF TEXT
To change the look of your text when coding, there’s multiple routes you can take when styling text in HTML. The first way to make your text look different from the body, is by using heading tags. These tags are h1 through h6. H1 is the largest heading and the size decreases steadily until it reaches the smallest heading style, h6. The b and i tags are useful to show variation as well. B being bold and i being italics. Alternate tags for these two are the strong and em tags. Strong has the same result as bold, while em has the same result as i, showing emphasis around a specific word. All these tags can be inserted at the beginning and end of a word or phrase to apply the style to the desired text. You can also apply CSS rules to these tags, whether that be the font style, size, or anything similar.
READABILITY
HTML tags are important when it comes to readability. When you put text into HTML, the software won’t recognize the “enter” when you want to separate paragraphs or create white space. This is where tags come in. The p tag is most helpful to distinguish lines of text as paragraphs. The br tag is used to create line breaks as well. The br tag gives you the ability to create as much white space as you’d like, regardless if there’s text within the tags or not. The hr tag can be used to create a horizontal rule, breaking up sections of text. Overall, readability can be affected greatly by creating breaks and space between text, by using the tags HTML has to offer.
COLOR
Color works in coding similarly to how it works in most programs. You have a choice between rgb values, hex codes, common color names, hues, saturation, and brightness. Color can be applied to fonts and text within the foreground and text boxes or div’s in the background. When choosing what color to use on your site, it’s important to take into consideration how these colors will be viewed. It’s important to pay attention to the brightness of colors when they exist together, it’s also important to put darker text on lighter colors and lighter text on darker colors. All in all, the way that color functions within web design is similar to how it functions in most designs.