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Working with fonts

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- [Instructor] If you're a designer, you know that typography is incredibly important to a design and the message you're trying to communicate. So it's no surprise that when learning CSS, a lot of folks start with fonts. The CSS specification gives us all sorts of controls when working with fonts. But for this course, I want to zero in on the most basic font properties, specifically the four most common ones you'll see when working with CSS. First, we've got font-family, next font-weight, font-style, and finally font-size. Now let's take a look at each one in turn. So here's the font-family and what we've got, we're specifying the font for an element. In this example, it's the paragraph element. Then we've got a prioritized list of fonts and we're also including a fallback font. So in this example here, the first font that we want would be Times New Roman. Should that not be available, then we'll go to Times. And…

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