Fonts

Aside from adding pictures, which we will get to later, the first thing most people want to know is how to change the font.

There are three things you can change in the font tag. Those three items (attributes) are:

• Face - the actual font used.
• size - a value from 1 (small) to 7 (large)
• color

So here is an example:

<font face="Brush Script MT" size="6" color="red">

This makes pretty large red text using the Brush Script font. To change back to the previous font put in a tag to end the font like this:

In fact, anytime you are done with changing a font, you must end the font otherwise some browsers will get confused.

</font>

This makes the font go back to the prior font.

If the font you have selected does not exist on the machine that is viewing your page, a substitute font (or the default font) will be displayed. Sometime the results are gross. Also, font size can also be controlled using + or - numbers. In other words, if you want the next size larger font it might look like this:

<font size=+1>

Open up your file called format.htm.

Save it as fonts.htm.

Add text on any subject you wish using 9 different combinations of face, size and color.

A few of the web safe fonts are:

Times New Roman
Courier New
Verdana
Ariel
Georgia
Trebuchet
Comic Sans

I did not show what they look like so you can experiment with them. For additional fonts, search on Google for "web safe fonts." Save the file.

View it using the browser to ensure that it all works correctly.

Show it to me or email it to me.