Can someone explain to me how to generate font tags such as <font -color="red">some text here</font>?

Here is a sample of what I'm doing. Let's say I want to make the word "current" red, how can I do that? I've tried many ways that did not work...

package mywebpages;
require Exporter;
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw(servePage
         isPageValid);

require 5.003;
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard escapeHTML);

################
# commonHeader #
################
# Description: produces html header common to all pages
# INPUT: webpage name (ex. = home.html)
# OUPUT: scalar reference containing html header
sub commonHeader($) {
    my ($page) = @_;
    my $html_string;

    $html_string = header("text/html").
                   start_html(-meta=>{"Content-Type" => "text/html",
                                      "charset"      => "iso-8859-1"},
                       -title=>"$page",
                       -bgcolor=>"white").
         p.
         h1("myWebSite").
         hr.
               p("The 'current' time according to this system is: ").
               b($timestamp);

    return (\$html_string);
}

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In reply to How do I create font tags with cgi.pm? by apprentice

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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