Beginner’s guide to styling text with CSS

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Get my Essential Font Properties Cheat Sheet for a quick reference to the different properties and values I talk about in this video: https://kevin-powell.ck.page/d3dcf0ac84 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: https://youtu.be/JVsI0fspik8 ✅ google fonts: https://youtu.be/zK-yy6C2Nck https://kevinpowell.co/courses?utm_campaign=general&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=VIDEOTITLE ⌚ 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 #css -- Come hang out with other dev's in my Discord Community 💬 https://discord.gg/nTYCvrK Keep up to date with everything I'm up to ✉ https://www.kevinpowell.co/newsletter Come hang out with me live every Monday on Twitch! 📺 https://www.twitch.tv/kevinpowellcss --- Help support my channel 👨‍🎓 Get a course: https://www.kevinpowell.co/courses 👕 Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/making-the-internet-awesome 💖 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kevinpowell --- My editor: VS Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/ --- I'm on some other places on the internet too! If you'd like a behind the scenes and previews of what's coming up on my YouTube channel, make sure to follow me on Instagram and Twitter. Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinJPowell Codepen: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/ Github: https://github.com/kevin-powell --- And whatever you do, don't forget to keep on making your corner of the internet just a little bit more awesome!