When you code in HTML and add some text, you don’t want to leave it like that. You want to make that text look good.

And to do that, you need to change their appearance through the color and font-size properties of CSS.

In this tutorial, I will show you two different ways you can make your HTML texts look good.

Basic font-size Syntax

selector {
     font-size: value;
     color: value;
}

How to Change Text Size and Text Color in the HTML Tag

You can change the color and size of your text right inside its tag with the color and font-size properties. This is known as inline CSS. You do it with the style attribute in HTML.

In the HTML code below, we will change the color and size of the freeCodeCamp text.

<h1>freeCodeCamp</h1>

body {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    height: 100vh;
}

It looks like this in the browser:
unstyled-font

To change the size of the text, you'll use the style attribute, and then set a value with the font-size property like this:

<h1 style="font-size: 4rem">freeCodeCamp</h1>

The text now looks like this in the browser:
text-size

If you are wondering what 4rem is, it's a unit of measurement. It's the same as 64 pixels, because 16px makes 1rem unless you change the root font-size (html) to another value.

To change the color of the text, you can use the style attribute, and then set a value with the color property:

<h1 style="color: #2ecc71">freeCodeCamp</h1>

This is what we now have in the browser:
text-color

Combining the font-size and color properties gives us this in the browser:

inline-text-size-and-color

With the code:

<h1 style="font-size: 4rem; color: #2ecc71">freeCodeCamp</h1>

How to Change Text Size and Text Color in an External CSS File

You can also change the color and size of text in an external stylesheet. Most importantly, you have to link the external CSS in the head section of your HTML.

The basic syntax for doing it looks like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path-to-css-file">

Now, to change the text size and color of the freeCodeCamp text, you need to select it in the stylesheet and apply the appropriate properties and values to it.

Remember this is our simple HTML code:

<h1>freeCodeCamp</h1>

You can change the color and size of the text by selecting the element (h1) and assigning values to the color and font-size properties:

 h1 {
    color: #2ecc71;
    font-size: 4rem;
}

We have the same result in the browser:
external-text-size-and-color

Conclusion

I hope this tutorial gives you the knowledge to be able to change the size and color of your HTML text so you can make them look better.

Thank you for reading, and keep coding.