Fonts

@font-face

@font-face {
  font-family: 'blah';
  src: url('blah.eot');
  src: url('blah.eot?#iefix') 
         format('embedded-opentype'),
     url('blah.woff') format('woff'),
     url('blah.ttf') format('truetype'),
     url('blah.svg#blahRegular') format('svg');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}
body {
  font-family: 'blah', arial, san-serif;
}

@font-face

@font-face {
  font-family: yourFontName;
  src: url(fontfile) [, url(fontfile)]*;
  [font-weight: bold|normal];
  [font-style: italic|normal];
  [charset: characterSet;]
}
File Chrome Firefox Opera Safari Internet Explorer iOS mobile Android
EOT
TTF/OTF 9 ✓ 4.2 ✓ 2.2
SVG ✓ 3
WOFF ✓ 11.1+ ✓ 5.1 ✓ 9 ✓ 5

Issues

Who owns the font?
Do you have the legal right to distribute your chosen font?
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FOUT
Flicker of Unstyled Content
File Size
Character sets can be huge, so file sizes can be huge
Need a different file for each font style
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Google Fonts

Google Fonts

Shadows

Text Shadows

  • text-shadow: left top blur color;
    
  • Transparent Shadows
    .trans { text-shadow: 0 5px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);}
  • Solid Shadows
    .solid { text-shadow: 0 5px 1px #999;}

Text Shadow

text-shadow:  0 2px 5px hsla(0, 0%, 0%, 0.2);
text-shadow: [horiz] [vert] [blur] [color];
.textshadow { text-shadow: 
    0 1px #cccccc, 	
    0 2px #c9c9c9, 
    0 3px #bbbbbb, 
    0 4px #b9b9b9, 
    0 5px #aaaaaa, 
    0 6px  1px  rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1), 
    0 0    5px  rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1), 
    0 1px  3px  rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3), 
    0 3px  5px  rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 
    0 5px  10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25), 
    0 10px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 
    0 20px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
}
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Firefox 3.5
  • Opera 9.5
  • IE 10
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Text-Shadow

box-shadow

 
box-shadow: 
	inset 3px 3px 0 3px #C7573A, 
	inset -3px -3px 0 3px #BDD9D5, 
	3px 3px 0 3px #BDD9D5, 
	-3px -3px 0 3px #C7573A;
box-shadow: 
    inset? [horiz] [vert] [blur] [spread] [color];
  • Last shadow drawn 'first', under previous shadow
  • Should still be -webkit- and -moz- prefixed for best support
  • Chrome / Chrome 10
  • Safari 3 / Safari 5.1
  • Firefox 3.5 / Firefox 4.0
  • Opera 9 / Opera 10.5

  • IE 9

Multiple Borders with Box Shadow

.rainbowBorders {
  box-shadow: 
    0 0 0 10px red,
    0 0 0 20px orange,
    0 0 0 30px yellow,
    0 0 0 40px green,
    0 0 0 50px blue,
    0 0 0 60px purple;
  }
     
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Text-Stroke

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Specifications

W3C Text Module
hanging-punctuation
none | [ first || [ force-end | allow-end ] || last ]
hyphens
none | manual | auto
letter-spacing
<spacing-limit>
line-break
auto | loose | normal | strict
overflow-wrap
normal | break-word
tab-size
<integer> | <length>
text-align
[ [ start | end | left | right | center ] || <string> ] | justify | match-parent | start end
text-align-last
auto | start | end | left | right | center | justify
text-decoration
<text-decoration-line> || <text-decoration-style> || <text-decoration-color> || blink
text-decoration-color
<color>
text-decoration-line
none | [ underline || overline || line-through ]
text-decoration-skip
none | [ objects || spaces || ink || edges ]
text-decoration-style
solid | double | dotted | dashed | wavy
text-emphasis
‘<text-emphasis-style>’ || ‘<text-emphasis-color>’
text-emphasis-color
<color>
text-emphasis-position
[ above | below ] && [ right | left ]
text-emphasis-style
none | [ [ filled | open ] || [ dot | circle | double-circle | triangle | sesame ] ] | <string>
text-indent
[ <length> | <percentage> ] && [ hanging || each-line ]?
text-justify
auto | none | inter-word | inter-ideograph | inter-cluster | distribute | kashida
text-shadow
none | [ <length>{2,3} && <color>? ]#
text-space-collapse
collapse | preserve | preserve-breaks
text-transform
none | [ [ capitalize | uppercase | lowercase ] || full-width || full-size-kana ]
text-underline-position
auto | alphabetic | [ below || [ left | right ] ]
text-wrap
normal | none | avoid
white-space
normal | pre | nowrap | pre-wrap | pre-line
word-break
normal | keep-all | break-all
word-spacing
<spacing-limit>

Borders & Backgrounds

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