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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Add Fonts

Kody Dibble
Kody Dibble
2,554 Points
Posted by Kody Dibble
Kody Dibble
2,554 Points

Code Help fonts

Not sure what's going on in my font selection? Do I use both the html and css stylesheets or just one? not sure why my code isn't working

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit | Designer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>

        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Trying to create an 80's style of glows.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Drips created using Photoshop brushes.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Creating shapes using repetition.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a>
        <a href="http://facebook.com/nickpettit"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2014 Nick Pettit.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>
css/main.css 
body {
  font-family: "Droid Serif", serif;
}


a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1 {
  font-family: "Droid Serif", serif;
}



h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

4 Answers

Fred Sites
Fred Sites
11,151 Points
Fred Sites
Fred Sites
11,151 Points

Kody,

Your CSS looks right, but you need to load the font into your html as well.

Assuming you wanted to use this from google fonts, you'll want to put this in your head tag 

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Serif' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

Hope this helps!

Cynthia (Sunni) Freyer
Cynthia (Sunni) Freyer
828 Points
Cynthia (Sunni) Freyer
Cynthia (Sunni) Freyer
828 Points

Kody -- to add what Fred wrote, you can also go to: http://www.google.com/fonts and select the font/styles you want and google / fonts will spit out the url to drop in your html...

Kody Dibble
Kody Dibble
2,554 Points
Kody Dibble
Kody Dibble
2,554 Points

Where in the head do I had the link? And do I use the html pretag?

Cynthia (Sunni) Freyer
Cynthia (Sunni) Freyer
828 Points
Cynthia (Sunni) Freyer
Cynthia (Sunni) Freyer
828 Points

Right after the call to your main.css

I take it you aren't using a CMS?

I don't understand what you are driving at with your question re the pre element.