How do you create marquee text with an specific font, color and size?

I was just wondering how to create this using animations. I am doing this with this code below from HEADLESS.HORSE But I want to specify the font, size and color.

Thanks!

<div class="marquee">
  <div>
    <span><a href="URL HERE?">HELLO WORLD THE MESSAGE CAN BE ANY LENGTH. MESSAGE 1.</a></span>
    <span><a href="URL HERE?">HELLO WORLD THE MESSAGE CAN BE ANY LENGTH. MESSAGE 2.</a></span>
  </div>
</div>

<style>
  body {
    margin: 20px;
  }

  .marquee {
    position: relative;
    overflow: hidden;
    width: 100%;
    height: 25px;
  }

  .marquee div {

    position: absolute;
    display: block;
    overflow: hidden;
    width: 200%;
    height: 30px;
    animation: marquee 10s linear infinite;
  }

  .marquee span {
    float: left;
    width: 50%;
  }

  @keyframes marquee {
    0% {
      left: 0;
    }

    100% {
      left: -100%;
    }
  }
</style>

Hi,
I am using this code below but the text appears cut off and in a blue color. Any ideia on how can I fixed it.
Thanks

<div class="marquee">
  <div>
    <span><a href="URL HERE">HELLO WORLD THE MESSAGE CAN BE ANY LENGTH. MESSAGE 1.</a></span>
    <span><a href="URL HERE">HELLO WORLD THE MESSAGE CAN BE ANY LENGTH. MESSAGE 2.</a></span>
  </div>
</div>

<style>
  body {
    margin: 20px;
  }

  .marquee {
    position: relative;
    overflow: hidden;
    width: 100%;
    height: 25px;
  }

  .marquee div {
    position: absolute;
    display: block;
    overflow: hidden;
    width: 200%;
    height: 30px;
    animation: marquee 10s linear infinite;
    background-color: transparent;
  }

  .marquee span {
    float: left;
    width: 50%;
    font-size: 48pt;
    font-family: 'HKCompression-HeavyCondRounded', sans-serif;
    color: #000000;
    padding: 0 20px;
  }

  @keyframes marquee {
    0% {
      left: 0;
    }
    100% {
      left: -100%;
    }
  }
</style>

blue probably because it is a link and if you do not set up a css stye for the link it gets shown in “default blue”.

and you can play around with the width in the css and see if it still gets cut off.