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Styln’ With CSS | Chapter 4

More than any factor of CSS, type makes up the clearest visual statement of the site's offerings. Web design really workds with text, paragraphs, headings, lists, menus, and forms (to name a few) the most. Graphics are aidditions to your website design, but typography is where the inital design beings
A widely implemented CSS feature is embeded for designers to be able to download fonts onto their pages using the "@-fontface" rule. This gives designers the opprotunity to have many font options available for their websites need. There are three ways to specify web fonts; you can use a hostest fonrt library that connects directly to your web pages, use a pre=packed "@font-face" kit, or generate a "@font-face" kit fron one of your own fonts.
Using a grid to layout your text can help to provide a rhythm and flow of your page. Since any type of graphic can be added to the background of an element on the pagwe (in the <body>) you can add in a spacing guide gride premporarily to assit you. You can create your own grid on your own depending on your type style needs and display is as a background your assisting with typography.