CSS Fonts

Eric A Meyer

• 18 juli 2013
• 9781449371531

Samenvatting:

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