Updated June 9, 2023
Introduction to CSS Font Smoothing
The CSS font smooth is one property used for setting and controlling the fonts and displaying them on the web pages, mainly depending upon the font family. Moreover, in all types of scenarios of web pages, it depends upon the customer requirements within the shorthand property used for the font style, font-variant, font-weight, font stretch, font size, line height, and font family. The available fonts in font families are pre-installed and defined by the browsers. They can be specified using keywords or built-in values with formats such as pixels, percentages, etc. In this topic, we are going to learn about CSS Font Smoothing.
Syntax and Parameters
We write CSS codes by using style tags within HTML pages. We can follow the same rules and syntax for customized web pages that will be more attractive. For example, we can use the smooth font property to create user-friendly fonts on web pages, and it has used their attributes, properties, and elements with user-specified values.
<html>
<head>
<style>
.first
{
font-smooth: ; //it supports alpha-numeric format values and have some default font-families
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
---some html codes----
</body>
</html>The above codes are the basic syntax for initializing the font and using font-smooth with values in the css style sheet. We used alpha and numeric supported values, either the keyword type of values or predefined values in the css codes. Using these types of supported values, we can call them a parameter or set of arguments used in the font style sheet.
How does font smoothing is done in CSS?
Anything on the CSS style codes, we have used many attributes and properties with default values; it will be both texts, numbers, special characters, etc. Using these types of values, we can enable the particular property of their css attributes to make the presentation more user-friendly customer satisfaction is important for the business perspective. We can use the font smooth element attributes to control the web application regarding the anti-aliasing fonts rendered in the html pages; also, it’s one of the default sections for web-based applications, ID, or Some built-in classes.
When we use css fonts in html tags based upon the elements like font-smooth is one of the default and most widely used properties in the css codes for calculating the text placed correctly on the page. It has more boldness and thickness of different ranges and presentations in the css styles. It helps with the elements in the CSS Style codes. It is mainly used in the <body> tag of the html because <style> also declares and initializes the font style attribute values most probably used in the <head> section of the html web pages.
The font-smooth property accepts alpha and numerical values with some extensions format like pixels,%, etc. These default extensions allow for the usage of values on either keyword types or predefined numerical types. For instance, in WebKit, there are additional properties and keywords, such as -webkit-font-smoothing, with values like auto, none, antialiased, and subpixel-antialiased. You can also utilize numerical values within the range of 100 to 900 based on your specific requirements.
It may vary if, suppose, the keyword value is normal, it maps to the numerical value is 400, and the value is also bold; The font mapping assigns the 700 weight to produce specific effects within a given range of values, deviating from the standard weights of 400 or 700. This enables the utilization of built-in faces that align with the designated weights. So if the font property may use some child-level properties with value ranges and features like bold etc., it has 700, and normal has 400 ranges; the version is part of the font families, whatever the browser will use that ranges if the attributes are not available, the user browser will automatically it changes the bold or normal version it will not mimic the other unavailable weights fonts often mainly used with the regular and light type of formats to identify the font weights of the web page with alternate ideas.
Examples of CSS Font Smoothing
Here are the different examples are as follows:
Example #1
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#first {
font-smooth: auto;
font-smooth: never;
font-smooth: always;
font-smooth: 4em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome To My Domain</h1>
<p id="first">Have a Nice Day</p>
<select onchange="demo(this);" size="5">
<option>0.2
<option>0.3
<option>0.4
<option>0.7
<option selected="selected">1
</select>
</body>
</html>Output:
Example #2
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome To My Domain</title>
<style>
.first > div {
src: url('WWW.facebook.com');
font-family:'MutatorSans';
font-style: normal;
font-smooth: 6em;
}
div.second {
font-smooth: auto;
font-smooth: never;
font-smooth: always;
}
div.third {
font-weight: inherit;
text-transform: uppercase;
font: 1.5rem 'MutatorSans', sans-serif;
font-smooth: 2em;
}
div.four {
font: 80% sans-serif;
font-smooth: 3em;
}
div.five {
font: 13px/11px sans-serif;
font-smooth: 5em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="first">
<h3>Have a Nice day</h3>
<div class="second">Welcome</div>
<div class="third">Welcome</div>
<div class="four">Welcome</div>
<div class="five">Welcome</div>
</div>
<div class="first">
<h3>Welcome Users</h3>
<div class="second">
Have a nice Day
<p>Gud day</p>
</div>
<p><small>Welcome <code>To</code> My Domain</small></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>Output:
Example #3
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome To My Domain</title>
<style>
.first > div {
src: url('WWW.facebook.com');
font-family:'MutatorSans';
font-style: normal;
font-smooth: 6em;
}
div.second {
font-smooth: auto;
font-smooth: never;
font-smooth: always;
}
.img
{
opacity:0.8;
filter: alpha(opacity=1);
background-color: red;
padding: 11px;
font-smooth: 5em;
}
div.third {
font-weight: inherit;
text-transform: uppercase;
font: 1.5rem 'MutatorSans', sans-serif;
font-smooth: 2em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="first">
<h3>Have a Nice day</h3>
<div class="second">Welcome</div>
<div class="third">Welcome</div>
</div>
<img src="first.jpg" alt="transparent images " width="180" height="179">
<p><small>Welcome <code>To</code> My Domain</small></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>Output:
Conclusion
The font-smooth property controls the text rendering and allows for text insertion with unique features such as sizes, lengths, and colors, which will be displayed on web pages. The web pages use the font values in the correct positions pages; it usually supports all types of browsers.
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