CSS Fonts: Web Typography Possibilities

Meyer, Eric A.

ISBN 10: 1449371493 / ISBN 13: 9781449371494

Published by O'Reilly Media, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CSS Fonts: Web Typography Possibilities
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449371493
• ISBN 13: 9781449371494
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

Eric A. Meyer is the author of the critically acclaimed online tutorial Introduction to HTML, as well as some other semi-popular Web pages. He is a member of the CSS&FP Working Group and the author of Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide.