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{{font}} is used to define text styles, for example, size and color. It can also be used to inject CSS . This can be useful when needed to change "I" in Arial to " I " in Times New Roman, since in Arial, uppercase "I" looks the same as lowercase "L".
To consistently use a monospaced font with well-designed characters for coding so as to clearly distinguish between l, 1, and I, and between O and 0, and between -, −, –, and —, the system-default monospaced font can be changed:
The language inside templates is the same language as regular wiki markup, but template writers tend to use the more complex available functions such as #if: statements. See Wikipedia's Help:Template and Wikimedia's mw:Help:Template , including all of "advanced functioning" help pages listed toward the bottom of that page .
Apply a consistent monospace font of choice to all the normally monospaced HTML elements like <code>, <pre>, etc. Fallback to system-default monospace font, should the chosen font be unavailable or lack the necessary characters. Do the same for the output of all Example-formatting templates, such as {} and {}.
Avoid using smaller font sizes within page elements that already use a smaller font size, such as most text within infoboxes, navboxes, and references sections. [g] This means that <small>...</small> tags, and templates such as {} and {}, should not be applied to plain text within those elements. In no case should the resulting font size of any ...
TemplateStyles allow custom CSS pages to be used to style content without an interface administrator having to edit sitewide CSS. TemplateStyles make it more convenient for editors to style templates; for example, those templates for which the sitewide CSS for the mobile skin or another skin (e.g. Timeless) currently negatively affects the display of the template.
{{Font color }} is how you insert colorized text, such as red, orange, green, blue and indigo, and many others. You can specify its background color at the same time. {{Font color }} is also how you can color wikilinks to something other than blue for when you need to work within background colors.
This template is used on approximately 75,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage . Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.