CSS Fonts
Web Typography Possibilities
Published on 18. July 2013
68 pages
978-1-4493-7154-8 (ISBN)
Description
From custom fonts to ad-hoc font families you assemble out of a variety of individual faces, CSS 3 gives you more typographic options than ever before. This concise guide shows you how to use CSS properties to gain a fine-grained and wide-ranging influence over how you display fonts on the Web.Short and sweet, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Fonts, youll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once its released. Why wait? Learn how to choose and manipulate fonts right away.Specify font families and their generic alternativesUse @font-face to specify customized downloadable fontsSize your fonts with absolute or relative scales, percentages, or length unitsUnderstand the difference between italic and oblique stylesLearn how to specify or suppress a fonts kerning data and other font featuresSynthesize your own variants for fonts that lack bold or italic text
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Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Safari® Books Online
- How to Contact Us
- Chapter 1. Fonts
- Font Families
- Using Generic Font Families
- Specifying a Font Family
- Using @font-face
- Required Descriptors
- Other Font Descriptors
- Combining Descriptors
- Font Weights
- How Weights Work
- Getting Bolder
- Lightening Weights
- Font Size
- Absolute Sizes
- Relative Sizes
- Percentages and Sizes
- Font Size and Inheritance
- Using Length Units
- Automatically Adjusting Size
- Font Style
- The font-style Descriptor
- Font Stretching
- The font-stretch Descriptor
- Font Kerning
- Font Variants
- Level 3 Values
- Font Features
- The font-feature-settings Descriptor
- Font Synthesis
- The font Property
- Adding the Line Height
- Using Shorthands Properly
- Using System Fonts
- Font Matching
- Summary
- About the Author
