Beginner's Guide to Styling Text with CSS

Overview

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Explore essential CSS text styling techniques in this comprehensive 27-minute video tutorial. Learn about inheritance, font properties (family, size, weight, style), color manipulation, and text formatting (line-height, alignment, transformation, decoration). Gain practical insights using dev tools and discover how to create visually appealing and readable text for your web projects. Access a handy font properties cheat sheet for quick reference and follow along with timestamps to easily navigate specific topics.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- What we’re starting with
- You don’t need to memorize these
- Inheritance
- font-family
- font-size
- font-weight
- font-style
- cheat sheet
- color
- getting more specific and using our dev tools
- line-height
- text-align
- text-transform
- text-decoration