Week 4B

In Class

Deciding whether the font can do the job starts with reading the text.

• Is it complex?
• Does it have multiple sections and subsections in need of headings and subheadings?
• Does the author want to emphasize certain ideas?
• Do you need or want to italicize titles, quotes, or other items?
• Are there any repeating words or phrases?

If the answer is yes:

Find a font that can do the job!

You need a font family that:

• Works for repetitive words and phrases
• has all the styles you need
• has all the weights you need

A font family is:

• made up of all the styles in the font
• includes regular, bold, italic, and bold italic

Ex: Times, Times New Roman, Verdana, Century Gothic

A more complex font family includes:

• more styles
• more weights

Ex: Georgia, Gotham, Gill Sans, Helvetica, Baskerville

What Should You Look for in a Italic Style?

• Shapes of letters
• Legibility
• Contrast

Exercise: Bibliography

In this lesson, you will use h1 and h2 as intended. You will also use p, text-indent, margin, padding, <em>, <strong>, and a class. You will also practice choosing a font based on what it has to offer: roman, italic, bold, caps, and numbers.

After following all directions, here's a screenshot of my completed assignment so far:

After a few CSS changes, I wanted to make it look like the one example photo in the PowerPoint. Here is my result:

Now on to the next assignment!

Trying to get a web font to work on it...a work in progress. It's not working right now, but it's probably a simple mistake in my code.