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Fonts
Fonts are used to express ideas and draw attention to things. You may specify font size, style and colors in your documents using variables within the < font > and the < /font > tags. The default font size is 3 < font size=3 >. There are several font sizes, literally hundreds of font styles, and hundreds of font color codes. All font tags require both opening and closing tags.
Absolute Fonts
Absolute font sizes are static font sizes - their display will not vary when viewed by different web browsers or in different monitor resolutions. Absolute font sizes can be set ranging from:
< front size=1 > producing a ... very small font
to
< font size=7 > producing a ...
very large font .
Relative Fonts
Relative font sizes are always used in conjunction with (relative to) base fonts. The difference here is that Relative font sizes utilize a ( + ) or a ( - ) value to adjust text size. As mentioned above, when you do not specify a font size for your total document, all of your text will default to font size 3. However, you may use a Relative font size to accentuate selected text. Example: < font size=-2 > produces much smaller sized text relative to the default font.
Font Style
There are hundreds of font styles available and they can be fascinating to work with, but you must be careful when using them. A few things to keep in mind when experimenting with font styles are:
1) Too many styles in a document will create a cluttered look,
2) Be sure that the styles you choose compliment each other,
3) The font style you wish to use must be installed on your computer, and
4) Not all visitors to your website will have the same fonts on their computers and thus they will be unable to view your chosen font style. Your text will display in their browser's default font style. Your own operating system (O/S) has font styles installed already.
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