Summary

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By sharing a few CSS properties that relate to the styling of text, my hope is that you've come to realize that there are times when you don't have to rely on an image creation tool to handle styled text. Oftentimes a bit of style applied to markup does the job just fine— and in some cases, very well.

There are certainly instances where we may have to create text as a graphic—be it a company's logo, or where a particular font is necessary to the design of certain page elements. The key with anything is balance. Try using CSS styling first, and your markup will be cleaner and more accessible.

CSS gives us the control to shape and style text with surprisingly good results, adding a tool to your design arsenal that will allow your markup to remain lean and mean.

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