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HTML Fonts & Text Tutorials: Learn how to Set Fonts to your HTML Text, such as Font face, font size, color, effects, and other fonts formatting such as setting a font to a header with Tags.

The font Tag
The font tag was brought in early in HTML’s life to allow designers to change the size, typeface and colour of their text. It proceeded to do more harm than good — for all sorts of reasons — but mainly because it is a hugely inefficient way to format text.

Web Typography
The fonts you use for your website are an important decision, as they will often reflect your site’s tone and affect its visual impact. Typography is an interesting field if you can appreciate the skills that go into the design of a typeface. Below is an introduction to typography, starting with font classifications and then going into the practicalities of online text.

Fonts
Font face and color depends entirely on the computer and browser that is being used to view your page. See font tags….

HTML Fonts
The font tag in HTML is deprecated. It is supposed to be removed in a future version of HTML.

Set the font of text
This example demonstrates how to set the font of a text.

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Set the font size of text
This example demonstrates how to set the font size of a text.

Set the font color of text
This example demonstrates how to set the color of a text.

Set the font, font size, and font color of text
This example demonstrates how to set the font, font size, and font color of a text.

Base Fonts
To specify the overall font for your page add the basefont tag at the beginning of the body section.

Fonts
The font tag will change the font. Example: How the output looks in the browser.

Font Effects
Here are some tags to change the way the default text will look on your Web Page. The tags can be used alone for a single effect. Or can be used together for a different effect. These tags are always used in pairs.

Font Face
When the Font Face tag is used, specific fonts can be assigned to specific text on a html document. These fonts must be installed in your computer to view them. The Font Face tag needs a computer to generate the font faces on the web page your're viewing.

Fonts
In this example, Changing Font Colors, Changing Font Sizes, Changing Font Faces….

Fonts / Text
In this lesson, we will set up font characteristics using the FONT tag and add detail and emphasis through tags such as B and I.

Fonts
In this section you will learn the different ways to manipulate the font within your page. You will learn how to change font styles, change size, create bold, italic and underlined text and other ways to format text.

Fonts
To change the text on your webpage, you need the "font" tag. To this, you can add certain attributes…

Font Element
Netscape Version 2.0 introduced the FONT element to permit control of the size of the displayed font, when possible. Font sizes are defined in a range from 1 to 7 (the default base value, or basefont, is 3). You can then specify a change in font size using elements such as...

BASEFONT Element
In introducing the FONT element, it becomes useful to set the base-level font size or characteristics for the entire document. This is done via BASEFONT. Thus BASEFONT SIZE="3" sets the base font for the document to 3. Relative fonts, selected by FONT, are then determined relative to this base size.

MARQUEE Element
MARQUEE, supported only by the Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 (and later) browser, is used to create a scrolling text marquee. For example…

Font Formatting
The FONT tag is another text formatting feature. It allows you to adjust the size and color of your text. The properties of a FONT tag are...

List of fonts
The reason that it is difficult to find a font reference or a complete guide to fonts on the web is that the names of fonts are different from mac to pc, the matter is further complicated because certain browsers have limited font support Not all of the fonts listed here are considered 'safe', and any fonts used on a webpage which are not installed on a users computer will be rendered as the users default font, so it is always a good idea to have 'back up fonts' in your font tags.

HTML Fonts
HTML fonts come in a variety of shapes and sizes. The important thing to remember when choosing a font for your page is that not everybody will have that particular font on their hard drive, which means that their computer will show them your page using their default font, which is usually Arial or Times New Roman.

Font tag
On this page, you'll find: Font tag explained.

Fonts
In this section we'll talk about setting the fonts in your page: making them bigger, smaller, bolder, and different colors. Fonts are one of the most important visual elements of your page and if you're like most web designers you'll want to set a few fonts in every page.

Font Face
The font tag is actually being deprecated. That means that in the future of HTML you won't be using it within a document. It will still be used within Style Sheets. It is widely used at present which is why we are going to cover it. You will be using this tag often, so don't think it's going to disappear quickly.

The Font Tag
By using Font tag, we change the color, size and face of font.

Fonts And Colors
The font tag can be used to adjust the size of our text as well as a few other things. As with the other tags, the font tag has its paired ending tag /font. Font sizes are specified by a number, 1 being the smallest and 7 being the largest. If no number is used then your browser defaults to a font size of 3.

Font Tags
This page will discusses the use of FONT FACE, FONT SIZE, and FONT COLOR. These three variations of the FONT tag are supported by Internet Explorer and Netscape 3.0 and higher.

Manipulating Font Size and Color
Okay, now we want to see how to change the font size. This is done with the following tag…

Using Font Faces
Well, if you have the desire to change the font type on your pages without using images, you can do it to some extent with the HTML font tag. You do this by adding the face=" " command to your font tag, like this…

Text Tags Examples
The following are examples of Font Color, Font Faces, Font Styles, Font Sizes…

Formatting Text Size, Color and Font Face
HTML lacks a lot of font styles and characteristics that a lot of text editors have. You cannot format a Web document using HTML as nicely as you could format a page with a word processing program. What you can do with HTML is to specify certain font sizes (1 through 7), select a color from an RGB Color Reference and vary your text colors on your page without a graphics program.

Changing Text Sizes
There are several ways to change the text sizes in an HTML document. The heading tags are generally used as heading to break up a page because it creates an empty line above and below the heading text. Headings come in six sizes, and are coded like this...

Tizag - Font
The font tag is used to add style, size, and color to the text on your site. Use the size, color, and face attributes to manipulate your fonts. Use a basefont tag to set all of your text to the same size, face, and color.

Fonts
The html tag for fonts is a somewhat crude instrument. Most word processors let you use any font you like, as long as it's on your system. And that's the first big problem in web browsers. You have no control over other systems' fonts. So you will have to choose a font which is likely to be on any system out there.

BASEFONT: base font size
To specify the base font size (relatively to other sizes).

Big: big font
To present text in a large font.

FONT: font size and color
To specify font size (relatively to other sizes) or font color or both.

H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 : headings
To specify a heading. There are six levels of headers from H1 (the most important) to H6 (the least important).

Apply Fonts HTML Text Tutorials - Small: small font
To present text in a small font, e.g. in order to indicate it as less important.

Apply Fonts HTML Text Tutorials - Fonts and Font Tags
This tutorial shows you how to use the FONT tag to specify fonts; offers advice on choosing a font; demonstrates how to offer an alternative if the browser doesn't have the font you want to use; and gives several other hints and tips for better fontography...

Apply Fonts HTML Text Tutorials - Fonts
FONT ... is the addictive drug of HTML. When you start using FONT ... you're likely to think it's the coolest HTML tag ever created. You can set the sizes, faces and colors of the fonts on your web page, all with understandable FONT ... tags.