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Little attention is being paid to fonts. Apple recognized the importance of having beautiful typography, which is why aesthetics play an important part of their product design cycle. Nowadays, people are starting to realize how fonts are important to generate quality in their work and have started to pay more attention to proper font selection.
There is no hard and fast rule when it comes to choosing fonts for an assignment. There are thousands of fonts out there, with multiple categories such as serif, sans-serif, monospace, etc. It is a mind-boggling selection that is simple at first look; after all, we just choose one that looks best to us and use it.
Cfont Pro and AMP Font Viewer
This task can be accomplished by several free tools: Cfont Pro and AMP Font Viewer both of which are free, does them well for an unbeatable price. Both applications allows you to manage and display fonts installed on your computer and gives you many options to ‘test out’ a font to see it in actual usage rather than short previews. You can even print a string of text but with different fonts to see how they look.
Properly selecting fonts for websites also require some thought, as the font you choose to use needs to be installed on the user’s computer to be able to display properly. Otherwise, it will default to another font. It’s nice to set up your site to look great with a free font you downloaded online, but all that effort is useless if the user doesn’t have it. Therefore, consider finding out the commonly installed font types on computers and then only consider and compare those fonts when doing font selection.
- Tags: font, fonts, typography
Yong
May 28th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Nice. Good for choosing fonts to use for graphics text.
Selecting fonts for textual display on web pages is pretty easy though, I just stick to the standard ones… no headache
imDavidLee
May 29th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
mostly i used Arial font cos more neat
Kitkat
May 30th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Yong, at least it’s better than font preview in Photoshop and Microsoft Office :p
imDavidLee, I like Arial too but sometimes we got to try other font as well.
Jessen
May 30th, 2009 at 1:22 am
I’m using it together with Photoshop :p
Howard
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Adobe already trademarked their Ps Clean font thingy, which is pretty awesome but too bad now we can’t use it for commercial stuff anymore.
Neil Patmore
October 13th, 2009 at 3:30 am
This is why font usage is so boring on websites. You can’t beat good old fontfolio for print work though.
hizlindir
December 22nd, 2009 at 11:52 pm
l like different font type. thank
mimar
December 23rd, 2009 at 2:58 am
This is why font usage is so boring on websites.
sohbet
January 23rd, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Good for choosing fonts to use for graphics text.
pays to live green
February 5th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Sweet. I was actually looking for a problem that could help me with fonts. Thanks.
ree8
February 19th, 2010 at 4:00 am
Great, thanks
Fahad (Make|Money|Adsense)
February 19th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Usually i use microsoft word to check different style of fonts but these softwares have many options specially for font management, so it is better choice.
Computer Tips and Tech Talk
March 13th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Typography is although important, but one shouldn’t decide the types of font to be used based on only his perception. A successful write should get user involved so that it produce effective outcome.
SEO
March 19th, 2010 at 11:48 am
Yeah, it’s important to select the commonly installed font type. If the end users are not able to see it, then what’s the use?
Mayweather vs Mosley
March 19th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
I like Trebuchet MS, it a nice font, clean and easy to read.
Job Search
April 19th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Font is one of the factors that attracts visitors of your website. one of my fave is Tahoma.
G Web
May 11th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Fonts are the first things I look at when starting or evaluating a design. You can never have enough fonts, but don’t install too many of them though, as over 400 installed fonts really starts slowing lower end XP machines down.