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Decorative dropcaps can be created if you style the first letter of a paragraph as a block level element and play with its size and positioning. http://htmldog.com/techniques/dropcaps

CSS text shadows donโ€™t have to be blurry and you can use more than one at a time. https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-shadow https://tympanus.net/codrops/css_reference/text-shadow

You can even throw any โ€œblockโ€ of type around wildly by taking control of its display and transforming the whole element. https://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/css-transforms https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/transform https://tympanus.net/codrops/css_reference/transform

Or place an image inside text with the the latest CSS3 properties: -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
-webkit-background-clip: text;
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underlining text - so familiar to denote links - now has all sorts of fine-tuning control to elevate the simple text-decoration into a design device. https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-decoration/ https://obyford.com/posts/text-decoration/

Finally, Itโ€™s easy to select a variety of google fonts and use them with your pen by copying and pasting the CSS @import code. fonts.google.com