According to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the tag in HTML is deprecated. It is removed in a from its recommendations.W3C encourage to use style sheets (CSS) to define the layout and display properties of HTML elements. However there still a lot of people using it, it still worth to mention a while here.


Font Size

<font size=1>Font Size</font>
Size 1
Size 2
Size 3
Size 4
Size 5
Size 6


Font Color


Usually we can change html font color in two ways
1) Use Color Name Red Color

<font color=red>Red Color</font>

2) Use Hex code (#) Red Color

<font color=#FF0000>Red Color</font>

Please check my Html Color Tutorial to find out more web color http://www.mkyong.com/html/html-color-tutorial/


Font Face/ Font Family


We cannot expect them to be universally supported. Just see what your browser can make out of it:

<font face="Serif" > Font style </font>
Serif
Sans-serif
Cursive
Fantasy
Monospace 		Times
Roman
Garamond
Palatino
Antiqua		 Minion
Helvetica
Swiss
Impact
Script		 Decorative
Blackletter
Fraktur
Comic Sans
Modern		 Courier
Calibri
Frosty

The actual appearance will depend on browser and the fonts installed on your system. Internet Explorer and Firefox usually different font style in different way.


Beautiful First Letter Style


We learn how to use font face, font size and font color, here we combine all together and create a beautiful first letter

<font size="7" face="Arial" color="#FF0000">B</font>eautiful First Letter

Beautiful First Letter

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