Hour 11. Fonts and Typography in HTML5

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Changes to typography with HTML5

• New CSS3 properties for fonts

• How to hyphenate with CSS3

• Choosing typographical entities to use

• What the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) standard is

• How to use WOFF in your @font-face designations

This hour will teach you how to use typography on your web pages. Typography used to be very difficult to get precise on web pages, but as you’ll see in this hour, HTML5 and CSS3 have added new tools to make it easier. You will learn CSS3 properties for improving your fonts and how to add hyphenation to web page text.

This hour will also teach you how to use WOFF (Web Open Font Format) font families to create unique designs with custom fonts. ...

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