You have a variety of options, but here we'll use the simplest.
If there is no style, the text will take on the default font style, size and color determined by the browser.
Font families
ariel or helvetica or another sans-serif
verdana is another sans-serif
times the serif font
georgia, a "fancy" serif type
courier
Type size: This line of text has the default size with one exception.
Type color: You can set a part a different. It's determined right here in this line of type.
Or you can set the whole paragraph a different color.
You can mix it all up, too!
and you can make text bold, or italic or even strike-through
that's not too different -- want to see another way of making cascading style sheets?