Canvas Text and CSS
The first thing you need to know about text on HTML5 Canvas is that it does not
use CSS for style. While the properties of HTML5 Canvas look similar to
CSS properties, they are not interchangeable. While your knowledge of CSS
will help you understand text on the HTML5 Canvas, you can’t rely solely
on that knowledge to be successful with Canvas text. That being said,
Canvas can take advantage of fonts defined in a CSS file using
@font-face, and can fall back to multiple different fonts if the defined
font is not available.
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