CSS Fonts

Download or read book CSS Fonts written by Eric A. Meyer and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, you’ll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once it’s released. Why wait? Learn how to choose and manipulate fonts right away. Specify font families and their generic alternatives Use @font-face to specify customized downloadable fonts Size your fonts with absolute or relative scales, percentages, or length units Understand the difference between italic and oblique styles Learn how to specify or suppress a font’s kerning data and other font features Synthesize your own variants for fonts that lack bold or italic text