07 Font Tags - One of the most important things to know about for web page writing. Unlike the old type writer (for those of us who are old enough to remember them) which had one size, one color (OK some had black/red ribbons), one font face. No real Bold, Italisized or Underlined. With computers, you came a long way baby! Font size, color and face. You can also have the font tag within BOLD, , Italized Underline (a few wierd ones like blink, marquee, sub, strike) SIZE ----- Origionally size used Header tags like

words

(the largest) down to
but if you want to change other stuff about the text, you would want to use the FONT tag, so size would be (for example) could aalso be written Come in Seven Plus sizes 1 to 7 and the Plus sign is usually assumed by the browser. Also Petete sizes like to minus 7 FACE ---- The font face tag allows up to three possible choices. Like This: words For one :Some text Some text Notice each font face is seperated with a comma, and all are in quotation marks (Especially when the font name contains spaces as in "Times New Roman") It is best to use quotation marks on the "Face" parameter of the "FONT" tag which use comma seperated names anyway. It used to be required by some old browsers. COMMON ONES ----------- Arial also: (Arial Bold, Arial Italic, Arial Bold Italic, Arial Black) Comic Sans MS, also: (Comic Sans MS, Comic Sans MS Bold ) Courier New, also: (Courier New Bold, Courier New Italic, Courier New Bold Italic, Impact, which is a single font. Times New Roman, also: (Times New Roman Bold,Times New Roman Bold Italic) Verdana, also: (Verdana Bold, Verdana Italic, Verdana Bold Italic) COLOR ------ Color could be the easiest but "HEX" colors throy some folks for a loop. Two types of color, named and hex. NAMED ----- color text HEX --- color text OK, this is an other way of saying Red Hex counts to 16 instead of 10, and 0 to 9 are the same, but to use only one character they start with letters so that: a same as A = 10 B = 11 C = 12 D = 13 E = 14 F = 15 Why this, Well 2 hex numbers can count up to 256. AND Guess what, there are 256 intensities of the three primary colors (Which are red, green. and Blue) that make up the 16.7 million colors in the computers spectrum. See the Light: With only 6 hex numbers you can name all of them, trick is humans don't think in numbers like computers do: Text Color! | | |==> FF intensity of Blue | |==>80 intensity of Green |==>11 intensity of Red While not perfect, it is a start, over time I collected some red, green, blue hex codes for Colors: Chinese Red rgb=#E80A33 White rgb=#FFFFFF Red rgb=#FF0000 Green rgb=#00FF00 Blue rgb=#0000FF Magenta rgb=#FF00FF Cyan rgb=#00FFFF Yellow rgb=#FFFF00 Black rgb=#000000 Aquamarine rgb=#70DB93 Baker's Chocolate rgb=#5C3317 Blue Violet rgb=#9F5F9F Brass rgb=#B5A642 Bright Gold rgb=#D9D919 Brown rgb=#A62A2A Bronze rgb=#8C7853 Bronze II rgb=#A67D3D Cadet Blue rgb=#5F9F9F Cool Copper rgb=#D98719 Copper rgb=#B87333 Coral rgb=#FF7F00 Corn Flower Blue rgb=#42426F Dark Brown rgb=#5C4033 Dark Green rgb=#2F4F2F Dark Green Copper rgb=#4A766E Dark Olive Green rgb=#4F4F2F Dark Orchid rgb=#9932CD Dark Purple rgb=#871F78 Dark Slate Blue rgb=#6B238E Dark Slate Grey rgb=#2F4F4F Dark Tan rgb=#97694F Dark Turquoise rgb=#7093DB Dark Wood rgb=#855E42 Dim Grey rgb=#545454 Dusty Rose rgb=#856363 Feldspar rgb=#D19275 Firebrick rgb=#8E2323 Forest Green rgb=#238E23 Gold rgb=#CD7F32 Goldenrod rgb=#DBDB70 Grey rgb=#C0C0C0 Green Copper rgb=#527F76 Green Yellow rgb=#93DB70 Hunter Green rgb=#215E21 Indian Red rgb=#4E2F2F Khaki rgb=#9F9F5F Light Blue rgb=#C0D9D9 Light Grey rgb=#A8A8A8 Light Steel Blue rgb=#8F8FBD Light Wood rgb=#E9C2A6 Lime Green rgb=#32CD32 Mandarian Orange rgb=#E47833 Maroon rgb=#8E236B Medium Aquamarine rgb=#32CD99 Medium Blue rgb=#3232CD Medium Forest Green rgb=#6B8E23 Medium Goldenrod rgb=#EAEAAE Medium Orchid rgb=#9370DB Medium Sea Green rgb=#426F42 Medium Slate Blue rgb=#7F00FF Medium Spring Green rgb=#7FFF00 Medium Turquoise rgb=#70DBDB Medium Violet Red rgb=#DB7093 Medium Wood rgb=#A68064 Midnight Blue rgb=#2F2F4F Navy Blue rgb=#23238E Neon Blue rgb=#4D4DFF Neon Pink rgb=#FF6EC7 New Midnight Blue rgb=#00009C New Tan rgb=#EBC79E Old Gold rgb=#CFB53B Orange rgb=#FF7F00 Orange Red rgb=#FF2400 Orchid rgb=#DB70DB Pale Green rgb=#8FBC8F Pink rgb=#BC8F8F Plum rgb=#EAADEA Quartz rgb=#D9D9F3 Rich Blue rgb=#5959AB Salmon rgb=#6F4242 Scarlet rgb=#8C1717 Sea Green rgb=#238E68 Semi-Sweet Chocolate rgb=#6B4226 Sienna rgb=#8E6B23 Silver rgb=#E6E8FA Sky Blue rgb=#3299CC Slate Blue rgb=#007FFF Spicy Pink rgb=#FF1CAE Spring Green rgb=#00FF7F Steel Blue rgb=#236B8E Summer Sky rgb=#38B0DE Tan rgb=#DB9370 Thistle rgb=#D8BFD8 Turquoise rgb=#ADEAEA Very Dark Brown rgb=#5C4033 Very Light Grey rgb=#CDCDCD Violet rgb=#4F2F4F Violet Red rgb=#CC3299 Wheat rgb=#D8D8BF Yellow Green rgb=#99CC32