CSS Typography Review

Review

Great job! You learned how to style an important aspect of the user experience, typography.

Let's review what you've learned so far:

• Typography is the art of arranging text on a page.

• Text can appear in any number of weights, with the font-weight property.

• Text can appear in italics with the font-styleproperty.

• The vertical spacing between lines of text can be modified with the line-height property.

• Serif fonts have extra details on the ends of each letter. Sans-Serif fonts do not.

• Fallback fonts are used when a certain font is not installed on a user's computer.

• Google Fonts provides free fonts that can be used in an HTML file with the <link> tag or the @font-faceproperty.

• Local fonts can be added to a document with the @font-face property and the path to the font's source.

• The word-spacing property changes how far apart individual words are.

• The letter-spacing property changes how far apart individual letters are.

• The text-align property changes where text horizontally on a page.