Fonts vs. Text
Fonts are the different kinds of typefaces, can be categorized into collections, made up of families, + ech font is a set of letters, numbers, + symbols that are unique.
Text describes the words/characters such as heading.
Fonts can be applied, whereas text has specfic properties.
Fonts that are Available to Everyone
Serif
- Georgia
- Palatino/Book Antiqua
- Times New Roman
Sans-serif
- Arial
- Arial Black
- Arial Narrow
- Tahoma
- Trebuchet
- Verdana
Monospace
- Courier New
- Lucida Console/Monaco
Cursive
- Comic Sans MS
Fantasy
- Impact
Web Fonts Demystified
There are three main ways to specify Web fonts:
- Use a hosted font library that delivers fonts to your Web pages (Google Fonts)
- Use a pre-packaged @font-face kit
- Generate an @font-face kit from one of your own fonts using Font Squirrel