Beginner’s guide to styling text with CSS

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When we first start learning about CSS, one of the first things we learn is that we can style our text with properties like font-family and color. Quickly, though, we’re bombarded with more and more text related properties, so in this video, I take a look at the essential ones that you need to know early on, as well as talk about some of the units and values related to them.

🔗 Links
✅ External style sheets and selector basics:    • HTML & CSS for Beginners Part 9: External CSS  
✅ google fonts:    • Self-hosting fonts explained (including Go...  

https://kevinpowell.co/courses?utm_ca...

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:45 - What we’re starting with
01:15 - You don’t need to memorize these
01:35 - Inheritance
03:30 - font-family
06:12 - font-size
08:56 - font-weight
11:50 - font-style
13:25 - cheat sheet
13:40 - color
14:50 - getting more specific and using our dev tools
17:43 - line-height
20:10 - text-align
21:50 - text-transform
23:30 - text-decoration

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