How To Make Pretty Fonts

Changing Colour

Changing colour is really easy and really fun! To do this, type (without the quotes around the greater than and less than signs):

"<" FONT COLOR="red" ">" This text is red. "<" /FONT ">"

Result: This text is red.

Whenever you put the end tag , the colour will stop and the default will return. (We'll talk about how to set the default colour in another session.)

I changed the colour to red. Any colour name can be substituted where the word "red" is. The following colours are considered valid names, and many variations on names are also allowed. Not all colours are listed, as there are many of them!

red
blue
green
yellow
orange
brown
black

darkred
cyan
darkblue
darkgreen
violet
aquamarine
crimson

Headings

Header tags are used to create a larger font for use at the beginning of the webpage and when a new topic is introduced. How many different header sizes do you see on this page? As with the tag, to do this, type

"<" H2 ">" This header is size 2. "<"/H2">"

Result:

This header is size 2.

The table below shows the 6 defined sizes for a header.

Size 1 Header

Size 2 Header

Size 3 Header

Size 4 Header

Size 5 Header

Size 6 Header

Font Enhancing Tags

The table below lists the most commonly used font enhancers. These are common in most Word Processing Programs. These tags do nt require the word FONT in front of them. They are independent tags. You can use many tags at once, just remember to end them in the opposite order.

Font Enhancer	Result	Description
"<"B">" ... "<"/B">"	Result.	Bolds a font
...	Result.	Makes a font larger.
	Result is a new Line	Moves text to the next line.
...	Result	Centers text. Watch the American spelling!
...	Result.	Emphasizes text; similar to Italics.
		Puts a horizontal line in the page.
...	Result.	Makes text italics.
... ...	Result	Moves text to a new line with a line in between. Moves text to a new line with a line in between and adds appropriate justification.
...	Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall	Assumes the the text showing is predefined. Will not change the layout of the text.
~~...~~	~~Result.~~	Puts a strike through the text.
...	Result.	Makes text smaller.
~~...~~	~~Result.~~	Puts a strike through the text.
STRONG> ...	Result.	Puts a stronger emphasis on the text; darker than bolding.
_...	Re_sult.	Makes text subscripted.
^...	Re^sult.	Makes text superscripted.
...	Result.	Makes text underlined.

Examples

Type This...	To Get This...
*A Beautifully Bolded Underlined Title In Italics*	*A Beautifully Bolded Underlined Title In Italics*
My name is Sean M^cCann from Great Big Sea.	My name is Sean M^cCann from Great Big Sea.
Introduction	Introduction
Using the function f(x) = x²+2x+5, substitute x₁ into the equation to show f(x₁) = x₁²+2x₁+5	Using the function f(x)=x²+2x+5, substitute x₁ into the equation to show f(x₁)=x₁²+2x₁+5
Are you what I think you are Or just what I think I want?	Are you what I think you are Or just what I think I want?
Are you what I think you are Or just what I think I want?	Are you what I think you are Or just what I think I want?

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