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In this CSS text and fonts tutorial for beginners, you will learn about typography for your web pages. We will cover the most common text and fonts settings in CSS and apply them to an HTML example.

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CSS Text and Fonts Tutorial for Beginners - Typography

(00:00) Intro
(00:05) Welcome
(00:25) Setup
(01:47) font-size
(03:09) Typography inheritance
(03:58) Changing text color
(04:23) Commenting out code in HTML and CSS
(05:02) text-decoration
(06:34) text-transform
(07:13) text-align
(08:04) text-indent
(08:46) Other text properties to style
(09:14) line-height
(10:25) letter-spacing
(11:21) word-spacing
(12:10) font-weight
(13:47) font-style
(14:22) generic font families
(16:08) font stacks and fallbacks
(18:41) Websafe fonts
(19:05) External fonts

Web Dev Tools:
Chrome Browser: https://www.google.com/chrome/
Visual Studio Code (VS Code): https://code.visualstudio.com/
Live Server VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer
vscode-icons VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscode-icons-team.vscode-icons
Github Themes VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.github-vscode-theme
W3C CSS Validator: https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Specificity Calculator: https://specificity.keegan.st/

References:
MDN CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS
MDN CSS Basics: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/CSS_basics
MDN CSS Selectors: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Selectors
MDN - How to Apply Colors to HTML Elements with CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color
MDN - CSS Values and Units: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Values_and_units
MDN - The Box Model: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/The_box_model

Typography Resources:
[MDN: Fundamental Text and Font Styling - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Styling_text/Fundamentals
CSSFontStack.com: Websafe Fonts - https://www.cssfontstack.com/

Color Resources:
Coolors Contrast Checker: https://coolors.co/contrast-checker/112a46-acc8e5
WebAIM Contrast Checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
Coolors Palette Generator: https://coolors.co/
HTML Color Codes: https://htmlcolorcodes.com/

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