Changing font attributes is fun, but remember...don't overdo it! Annoying profiles can be worse than boring profiles. And font tags take up a lot of your limited profile space.

< font . size="x" color="#xxxxxx" back="#xxxxxx" face="font name">

Font tags change the attributes of text after the tag.

This means you cannot affect the field name of the first one you type in. It will always appear as black 3-point Arial text. For most of you this will be the "Member Name:" field name.

Also, for those of you who are familiar with HTML, the normal closing tag </font> doesn't work in AOL profiles.

The font color tag: < font . color="#xxxxxx">

...where xxxxxx is a color hexcode. color codes...

For example, to make some fields blue, I could do this:

Which would make my profile look like this:

The font face tag: < font . face="font name" >

...where 'font name' is the name of a font.

Fonts common to most computers nowadays are Arial (Helvetica), Times New Roman, Courier New, Comic Sans MS, Wingdings, and Symbol. If you use anything else, don't expect everyone else to be able to see it.

The font faces 'Helvetica' and 'Arial' are different names for the same font. They will default to Helvetica on Macs and Arial on IBM-PCs unless you have both fonts installed.

The font size tag: < font . size="x" >

...where x is a number from 1 to 7. Normal font size is 3.

The font point-size tag: < font . ptsize="x" >

...where x is a number from 1 to 100. Normal font size is 10.

The font background color tag: < font . back="#xxxxxx" >

...where xxxxxx is a color hexcode. color codes...

The bold tag: <h7>text</h7>

The italic tag: <h3>text</h3>

This tag turns your text color back to black, so if you want to use another color you'll have to do this:

<h3>< font . color="#xxxxxx">text</h3>

You can't.

You can't.