{"id":1689,"date":"2016-11-12T23:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pixeld.com.au\/refine-your-website-with-fonts\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:24:04","slug":"refine-your-website-with-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixeld.com.au\/refine-your-website-with-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"Refine your website with fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"
High quality fonts can improve a websites readability and aesthetics. They\u00a0can also define the tone of your website and your brand. Using the right combination of type face, sizing, weight and spacing can instil elegance, experience, professional or strength. Getting this combination right is an art\u00a0that a good designer should be able to employ.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the key points to focus on when pairing fonts on your website.<\/p>\n
Of utmost importance is the ability to easily read text on your website. Not every font is designed for readability. A font\u00a0may have been designed to be more artistic and perhaps used at much larger font sizes than you would typically use on a website. A standard at the moment is to use a font size of 16 pixels in height for the body of your website content.<\/p>\n
Not all fonts work well on web. On a website, font sizes for copy within a page might range from as little as 12 pixels high to 24. Not all fonts display well at those sizes. Not only that, depending on the viewers operating system and browser there could be some variances in the way the displaying device renders the font.\u00a0Designers may think their fancy new font looks great on their 27 inch iMac, but it could be a completely different story on an older PC.<\/p>\n
In my experience, the quirkier and free fonts (apart from Google fonts<\/a>) are less likely to translate well on all devices. There’s a reason why some really professional fonts cost quite a bit of money. They are designed to perfection.<\/p>\n Fonts can be fun, professional, vintage, modern, ultra modern, classic. There are a range of styles that can convey an emotion on your website. Make sure you choose something that is appropriate for your brand.<\/p>\n An old running joke is that non-designers would seem to love using the font comic sans (the cartoon\/comic book style font). To the uninitiated it may have seemed like a fun font to use, and who doesn’t love fun? But professionally, use of the font is deplored as juvenile and unprofessional. It even spawned many hate websites like Comic Sans Criminal<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you just can’t resist the thought of this fun font, maybe considered Comic Neue<\/a>. It’s ‘kind of’ cool.<\/p>\nCharacteristics<\/h3>\n