Summary 5
Art 354 Web Design
Topic 1
Font properties
Font properties is a pretty easy thing to understand when ever you want to change the text of your website in any given section. With font properties you can change the size, style, weight, you can put it in all caps, small caps, indentation, underline, decoration, spacing of letters. These all will help you change the text to what you are looking for when designing the site.
Topic 2
Web fonts
So what your going to want to do if you are thinking about getting a font of the web to use within your website, one is going to be looking at google fonts so that you have a free of use and dont need a lisencing to use the font, after this the second thing is going to grab the <link> refference and then going into the <head> portion of the html code and paste that in, then when you want to use it on text you can go ahead and go into the css for a given set of text lets say the h3 portion of the website is going to be this certain font, what your going to do is simply enter a font-family code and site the ref.
Topic 3
Fonts on a grid
Dealing with text within a grid that you have set up what is going to happen is that your going to figure out the hiarcy that your wanting setting the main headings, then the supporting text. The font size and the line height will determine how big your text will be and how it will interact with the grid that you've set up. You might also want to take a look at the padding and margins of the body in realation to your text also you doing want the text to be across the screen when you doing have paragraphs of text.