๐กYou can cut/paste โ๏ธ๐ emoji and lookup๐ the syntax of special โ glyph codes โ to display extra characters hidden in fonts.๐๐๐ https://emojipedia.org https://www.toptal.com/designers/htmlarrows/symbols/
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 donโt 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 โblockโ 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;
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https://css-tricks.com/how-to-do-knockout-text/
-webkit-background-clip: text;
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, Itโs 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