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text- vs font- Properties in CSS – Learn the Difference

CSS text- properties format a text’s layout, while font- properties design the text. Let’s discuss these differences.

text-

Section titled “text-”

A CSS text- property specifies a text’s layout on the page.

For instance, to specify a text’s horizontal alignment, you will use the text-align property like so:

h1 {
  text-align: center;
}

font-

Section titled “font-”

A CSS font- property specifies a text’s design.

For instance, to specify a text’s size, you will apply a font-size property like so:

h1 {
  font-size: 4.5rem;
}

CSS Text and Font Properties

Section titled “CSS Text and Font Properties”

Below are the CSS text and font properties.

CSS Text PropertiesCSS Font Properties
text-align – Set a text’s horizontal alignment.font-family – Specify a text’s font family.
text-align-last – Align a text’s last line.font-feature-settings – Adjust advanced topographical features of an OpenType font.

text-decoration – A shorthand for setting the following properties:

  • text-decoration-line (required)
  • text-decoration-color (required)
  • text-decoration-style (optional)
  • text-decoration-thickness (optional)
font-kerning – Specify whether the computer should show a text’s kerning.
text-decoration-color – Decorate a text’s line with a color.font-size – Set a text’s size.
text-decoration-line – Decorate a text with an underline, overline, or line-through.font-size-adjust – Adjust the size of a text’s lowercase characters relative to the current font size.
text-decoration-style – Decorate a text with a solid, double, dotted, dashed, or wavy line style.font-stretch – Specify how the computer should stretch a text.
text-decoration-thickness – Set a text line’s thickness.font-style – Set a text’s style as italic, oblique, or normal.
text-indent – Indent a text’s first line.font-variant – Specify whether lowercase texts should appear in small-caps.
text-justify – Set text-align: justify’s justification method.font-variant-alternates – Set a text’s alternate glyphs.
text-orientation – Set writing-mode: vertical-rl’s text orientation.font-variant-caps – Set a text’s alternate glyphs for capital letters.

text-overflow – Render overflowed texts as:

  • a clipped text
  • an ellipsis (”…”)
  • a custom string
font-variant-east-asian – Set a text’s alternate glyphs for East Asian scripts (such as Japanese and Chinese).
text-rendering – Specify if the text rendering engine should optimize speed, legibility, or precision when rendering a text.font-variant-ligatures – Set a text’s ligatures and contextual forms.
text-shadow – Add shadow to a text.font-variant-numeric – Set the alternate glyphs for numeral texts, fractions, and ordinal markers.
text-transform – Transform a text to uppercase, lowercase, or capitalize.font-variant-position – Set the alternate glyphs for a superscript or subscript text.
text-underline-position – Set the position of a text’s underline.font-weight – Specify how thick or thin texts should appear.
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