Graphic Design 3
Lab week 12 #2
Cherish Deeg
Topic: Changing Font
In Dreamweaver you have the ability to set the typeface, or font, for any text on your page. However, because there are not fonts that are universal Dreamwever uses font families. These are combinations of fonts that allow you to provide several options for the browser to choose from when displaying your font. If the browser viewing your work ends up not having one of these choices installed then the browser will open with the default font of that browser. There are six of these combinations or font families. When choosing font size Dreamweaver is reminiscent of a word processor but with the font handling characteristics of HTML or CSS styles. You may apply several font sizes from the pop-up menu in the property inspector or you can change the units of measurement.
To set a font…
1. Select the text you want to modify.
2. Choose a different font combination from the font pop-up menu in the property inspector, or choose Text> Font and then choose the font combination from the sub menu.
-The text changes appearance
Tip…
Most of these font combinations are found on computers sold in both Windows and Macintosh from the past few years. Making these combinations a good choice because they are available on any computer, for the most part.
To set font size…
1. Select the text you want to modify
2. Choose a different size form the Font size pop-up menu in the Property inspector
3. Choose the unit of measurement you want from the units pop-up menu, next to the Font size pop-up menu.
-The text changes appearance.
Tip…
Some of the sizes listed in the Font size pop-up are relative sizes, meaning they set a font size to be larger or smaller relative to the default font size
