Font <FONT>

This command is used to indicate font properties in the document, such as size, color and type.

The Verdana font is used across platforms.

  1. Select the text you want to modify.

  2. In the Common tab, click on the Font T button. You can also use the shortcut CTRL+W (Refer to list of shortcuts).

  3. Make the changes you want to the size, color, and type of font and then click OK.

To change the font size:

Example:

<font size="aValue"> my text </font>

You can also change the font size by selecting the text and click on the arrow bdroite.gif located to the right of the Font T button. CuteHTML Pro will display a sub-menu from which you can select the desired font size.

To change the font color:

Changing the color inserts the attribute COLOR in the FONT command.

Example:

<font color="aValue"> my text </font>

You can also change the font color using the Color button found on the Common tab.

To determine the substitute font:

Fonts are not transferred with the HTML document, if the font you indicate is not available the browser will select one from the fonts available in the system. Sometimes the results can be surprising. Thus, it is important to select a font that is commonly available.

You can also design your page with a particular font, while at the same time selecting a substitute font in case the visitor to your Web page does not your visitor does have your main font installed in his/her computer.

You must take into account that the Available Fonts option is only available in Microsoft Internet Explorer bmp00007.gif and Netscape bmp00006.gif versions 3 or later.

  1. In the Font dialog box, click on the Available Fonts dialog box and press OK.

  2. If you want to preview another substitute font, click on the Add button after the first step to add the font selected first to the Selected Fonts area and select one or more additional fonts.

The fonts will be interpreted by the visitor's browser in the order in which they appear inside the HTML tag. For example:

<font face="Futura, Arial, Helvetica"> my text </font>

The main font is Futura. If this font is not available, the browser will look for Arial in the system; if this font is not available either, the browser will look for Helvetica.

Note that it may be advantageous to select Helvetica as a substitute font because it is a universal font for MacIntosh while Arial is a universal font for PC users.

Additional font properties:

Click on the Possible Attributes tab in the Font window to select additional attributes. These attributes only make slight changes to the font. However, you must keep the following in mind: they are often exclusive to one of the browsers; if such is the case, it will be indicated on the Possible Attributes tab in the Font dialog box.