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Mastering CSS

You're reading from   Mastering CSS A guided journey through modern CSS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281585
Length 522 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rich Finelli Rich Finelli
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Preface 1. CSS Foundations 2. Ramping Up FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating a Page Layout with Floats 4. Creating Buttons with Modular, Reusable CSS Classes, and CSS3 5. Creating the Main Navigation and Drop-Down Menu 6. Becoming Responsive 7. Web Fonts 8. Workflow for HiDPI Devices 9. Flexbox, Part 1 10. Flexbox, Part 2 11. Wrapping Up

Google Web Fonts

Hosting your own web fonts and using proper CSS to support all browsers is slightly challenging. There are much easier ways to go about this. I really like Google Fonts; they are very easy to use and 100 percent free. The quality of the fonts is very good as well. In this section, we'll replace our hosted fonts with Google Web Fonts. The first step is to go to Google Fonts and select the two fonts we'll be using. Add a link to the CSS file in the heading of both HTML documents. Then finally, add the font name to our CSS.

Finding Google Fonts

Go to https://fonts.google.com/ and search for our headline font: Maven. What's cool is that we can type in some text, say, our site title, to see how specific...

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