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

Posted by Mishaela Kelly
Mishaela Kelly
4,033 Points

Set the size of your H1 to 1.75em and the weight to normal.

I'm pretty sure I'm doing this correctly.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit | Designer</title>
     <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
font-family: 'Changa one', sans-serif; 
font-size: 1.75em;
font-weight: normal;                         
      <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 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

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

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

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}
  h1 { 
font-family: 'Open Sans',  sans-serif; 
font-size: 1.75em;
font-weight: normal;
}

5 Answers

Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

I noticed that you have the same two properties in your html on the line after your font-family declaration. Try removing the two properties from there and see if it works.

Frederico Graciano
PLUS
Frederico Graciano
Courses Plus Student 2,768 Points
Frederico Graciano
Frederico Graciano
Courses Plus Student 2,768 Points

So one of the problems is here:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
font-family: 'Changa one', sans-serif; 
font-size: 1.75em;
font-weight: normal;

So one of the problems is here you didn't finished the open link tag >

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>

The Font Family, size and weight should only be added in the main.css file in the h1 selector. The only thing that you add in your html inside the <head></head> tags is the font link that you copied from google fonts in this case this "<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css>"

So it should look like this:

a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

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

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

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

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

  h1 { 
font-family: 'Open Sans',  sans-serif; 
font-size: 1.75em;
font-weight: normal;
}
Alex Watts
Alex Watts
8,396 Points
Alex Watts
Alex Watts
8,396 Points

Hello Mishaela,

I can see that you are trying to use a font from Google. However, your link is incorrect. It should be like this (see below)

<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

Also you should specify the fonts in your CSS or internally wrap them in a style tag within your HTML (see below). You have also specified a different font from that set in your link?

<style>
   font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
</style>

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Mishaela Kelly
Mishaela Kelly
4,033 Points
Mishaela Kelly
Mishaela Kelly
4,033 Points

Thank you everyone for all of the help

Mishaela Kelly
Mishaela Kelly
4,033 Points
Mishaela Kelly
Mishaela Kelly
4,033 Points

I really appreciate it