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FONTS EVEN THE FONZ WOULD LOVE (REMEMBER THE FONZ?)

The word font refers to the style of characters that you are using. The default font for Corel Word Perfect, MS Word and HTML is Times New Roman . Another popular font is Arial . This workbook text is in Garamond . There are also Serif and Sans Serif types of fonts. Online, there are entire webpages devoted to fonts which you can add to your regular fonts supplied by Word Perfect and other programs.

HTML use the tag team of <font> and </font> to change how portions of text appear on your webpage. The font tag must have one of the following equations in the beginning tag to have any effect on the text sandwiched between this tag team.

NAME

FUNCTION

EXAMPLE

size

determines the size of font.

size="2"

( the larger the number, the bigger the font)

size="+1"

(makes font one size larger than default)

size="-1"

(makes font one size smaller than default)

color

determines the colour of the font

color="#ff00ff" This color will override or take precedence over the default color for text supplied in the <body> tag.

face

determines the style of the letters

face="arial"

 

 

Here is the code for our webpage where the font face is Arial, the size is 7 and the color is green.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>MY VERY BASIC PLAIN JANE BORING WEBPAGE</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#ff0000" alink="#00ff00">
the good stuff goes here
<P>
<a href="
http://cybermoms.cyberbeach.net ">Cybermoms</a>
<font size="7" color=#00ff00 face="arial">This text is Arial, size 7 and green</font>
</BODY>
</HTML>

And here is what the page looks like:
Screen shot of webpage with modified fonts