# Typography ## Emphasis ### Bold For emphasizing a snippet of text with a heavier font-weight. The following snippet of text is **rendered as bold text**. ``` markdown **rendered as bold text** ``` renders to: **rendered as bold text** ### Italics For emphasizing a snippet of text with italics. The following snippet of text is _rendered as italicized text_. ``` markdown _rendered as italicized text_ ``` renders to: _rendered as italicized text_ ### strikethrough In GFM you can do strickthroughs. ``` markdown ~~Strike through this text.~~ ``` Which renders to: ~~Strike through this text.~~


## Blockquotes For quoting blocks of content from another source within your document. Add `>` before any text you want to quote. ``` markdown Add `>` before any text you want to quote. ``` Renders to: > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante.


## Lists ### Unordered A list of items in which the order of the items does not explicitly matter. You may use any of the following symbols to denote bullets for each list item: ```markdown * valid bullet - valid bullet + valid bullet ``` For example ``` markdown + Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet + Consectetur adipiscing elit + Integer molestie lorem at massa + Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet + Nulla volutpat aliquam velit - Phasellus iaculis neque - Purus sodales ultricies - Vestibulum laoreet porttitor sem - Ac tristique libero volutpat at + Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel + Aenean sit amet erat nunc + Eget porttitor lorem ``` Renders to: + Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet + Consectetur adipiscing elit + Integer molestie lorem at massa + Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet + Nulla volutpat aliquam velit - Phasellus iaculis neque - Purus sodales ultricies - Vestibulum laoreet porttitor sem - Ac tristique libero volutpat at + Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel + Aenean sit amet erat nunc + Eget porttitor lorem ### Ordered A list of items in which the order of items does explicitly matter. ``` markdown 1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet 2. Consectetur adipiscing elit 3. Integer molestie lorem at massa 4. Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet 5. Nulla volutpat aliquam velit 6. Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel 7. Aenean sit amet erat nunc 8. Eget porttitor lorem ``` Renders to: 1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet 2. Consectetur adipiscing elit 3. Integer molestie lorem at massa 4. Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet 5. Nulla volutpat aliquam velit 6. Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel 7. Aenean sit amet erat nunc 8. Eget porttitor lorem


## Links ### Basic link ``` markdown [Assemble](http://assemble.io) ``` Renders to (hover over the link, there is no tooltip): [Assemble](http://assemble.io)


## Images Images have a similar syntax to links but include a preceding exclamation point. ``` markdown ![Minion](http://octodex.github.com/images/minion.png) ``` ![Minion](http://octodex.github.com/images/minion.png)