recommend me a font? :/
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I would've chimed in by now on choices but the ones that 've been recommended already are pretty good choices, but I will give you some "type crimes" to be wary of:
- When using a script font (a cursive/hand-written font), NEVER put them in all caps (except when doing something like initials with periods. Like an R.S.V.P. or something).
- Be very mindful of kerning (the individual space in between characters). Kerning and tracking (the space between ALL characters) are very different. Before you mess with the tracking, you need to make sure that the kerning is visually even between all characters.
- NEVER use "faux bold" or "faux italics". Faux italics is slightly more justifiable, but faux bold is just awful. It simply pads the character with more pixels. If you want bold, choose a font that has a bold character set in its family.
- Never manually squish or stretch a font (unless of course you're animating it into something or what have you. Each font has specific proportions that it's supposed to be. It's as bad as purposefully stretching or squishing a photo or frame of video).
- Comic Sans is a type crime.
- When using a script font (a cursive/hand-written font), NEVER put them in all caps (except when doing something like initials with periods. Like an R.S.V.P. or something).
- Be very mindful of kerning (the individual space in between characters). Kerning and tracking (the space between ALL characters) are very different. Before you mess with the tracking, you need to make sure that the kerning is visually even between all characters.
- NEVER use "faux bold" or "faux italics". Faux italics is slightly more justifiable, but faux bold is just awful. It simply pads the character with more pixels. If you want bold, choose a font that has a bold character set in its family.
- Never manually squish or stretch a font (unless of course you're animating it into something or what have you. Each font has specific proportions that it's supposed to be. It's as bad as purposefully stretching or squishing a photo or frame of video).
- Comic Sans is a type crime.
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I was at marketing seminar recently, and they were showing examples of poorly designed e-mail campaigns...the finale was one done entirely in Comic Sans. We all kind of stared at it, jaws dropping open - the whole nine yards - and someone actually asked "THAT'S an e-mail campaign?" (It was that bad, even aside from the font).
When I started my current job, one of the first things I did was rip out every last shred of Comic Sans from all the company's publications. I also deleted it from my computer, just in case... (they haven't found out, yet). *twiddles thumbs and looks innocent* Comic Sans, what Comic Sans?
Another tip: do not use too many fonts and make their use logical and consistent. Two fonts are probably ok, three may be ok if there are extenuating circumstances, four are 99.9% of the time a BIG NO.
When I started my current job, one of the first things I did was rip out every last shred of Comic Sans from all the company's publications. I also deleted it from my computer, just in case... (they haven't found out, yet). *twiddles thumbs and looks innocent* Comic Sans, what Comic Sans?
Another tip: do not use too many fonts and make their use logical and consistent. Two fonts are probably ok, three may be ok if there are extenuating circumstances, four are 99.9% of the time a BIG NO.