Fonts and Color choices are the essential ingredients of effective web design. Join the expert training team of Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson in this enlightening HTML5 & CSS course dedicated to the art of Fonts and Color...

Creating an attractive and functional web site—one that really "clicks" with your audience– is the goal that successful web designers strive to achieve everyday. A huge part of that process is choosing the ideal balance of colors and fonts. Like a perfectly designed Zen garden, everything on your site must work together in harmony and balance to enhance the whole, online experience.

In this HTML5 and CSS course, Elisabeth Robson and Eric Freeman reveal many techniques to help you enrich your web designs with coordinated colors and fonts. These’s so much to learn as they explore the world of web fonts and show you how to incorporate them into your design to create harmony and balance. And when it comes to choosing your color scheme, you'll learn to define the palette you're looking for, down to the exact shade and temperature you need for that perfect look.

As in all of the courses in this series, you'll join in, hands-on, with nothing but a text editor and a keyboard as Elisabeth and Eric guide you through the creation of every coded line. You'll learn how to go out on the web to get discover new fonts, then bring them right back into your page!

So, go ahead and stretch those fingers as you get ready to give your web pages a lift with a little help in this revealing course.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Font Families
3. How Font Families Work
4. Alternative Fonts
5. Text Size
6. Sizing Best Practices
7. Weight and Style
8. Understanding Web Colors
9. Specifying RGB Color
10. Using Color in a Web Page
11. How Hex Codes Work
12. Creating a Color Palette
13. Text Decoration
14. Introducing Web Fonts
15. Using Web Fonts in a Web Page
16. Putting It All Together