The @font-face CSS at-rule allows you to define and use your own custom fonts, thus allowing you to extend the limited set of standard system fonts that are installed by default on a computer, and that browsers can access and use. There’s a ton of style variation within each category that impacts the vibe of each font, and how you pair the fonts plays a huge role, too. 4) Once open, click Install” to add the font to your computer. When placing the logo on dark backgrounds of SMU colors or photographs, never reverse the SMU logo. In the case of Bixa Color, the color glyphs will add...

We have gathered together a nice resource list of stunning web safe fonts that you can use with CSS. Creating a style guide will also help you create more consistent and efficient typography styles across your project. The code above will also target the 3rd element in the list in a way that IE7 and 8 understand. And while it’s uncommon for contextual alternates to be considered ‘essential’ for a font to work well, they can add variety in several ways that might be very desirable for your project (see Montserrat Alternates ). If you’re using a cursive or script font, its...

In the first article of the module, we explored the basic CSS features available for styling fonts and text. To make the typography of your app more accessible in iOs, you can apply Dynamic Type Sizes. Fonts are relatively large assets — often hundreds of kilobytes in size — and will have and adverse effect on the speed of any site. You can change these settings in the Style section located at the left of the editor, in the Vertical Management Toolbar. This allows type designers to store vector shapes with colors, gradients and even bitmap images as SVG data inside the font file. Font (or...

For mobile Internet site developers, the WCSS properties that everyone has to deal with is probably the font and text properties, since every kind of mobile Internet application needs to display text, and very often the text has to be displayed in varied styles and sizes. Let’s explore each of the CSS properties that we need to style text. You can use all of those as font-family properties, but they are not guaranteed to be there for every system. The rules for using images or Flash to replace text are no different from those we use to choose body text typefaces. Many more recently...

In the previous few articles we looked at all the HTML you’ll need to create and structure your web forms. The property list-style-type applies to list items and determines the type of marker that they receive. Will ad your site and article to the list to help them in their quest to master the art of html and css. Color fonts represent a key evolution in digital typography, introducing rich graphic features into font files. The areas of your website where users read text should not only have high color contrast, but the colors you use should never compete with your brand color....