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Using fonts and text - Muse Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Responsive Mobile Website with Muse
Using fonts and text
- Now, when it comes to fonts and typography, there's a lot you can do in Muse. As I double-click on the homepage and enter in here, first off, I'm noticing, I want this text to be white, just to make it stand out. You can change the color of any text. That's pretty straightforward right there. In fact, individually, I can jump in and start to change individual characters, such as that plus sign to red, like I'm doing right now, just to make it match my logo. I can do something like that. Okay, so there is a lot I can do. In fact, you can even go into Effects and start to add a little bit of a drop shadow, just to set it off from the background. And I'll change that distance to zero so it makes it stand out on all sides. So it's very subtle, but I like that look. I'm still not crazy about the fonts. In fact, if I select the text tool -- I can select this text but you can see right in here, I have some standard fonts and then some system fonts export as images. This is a big no-no…
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