Make your sites look better // Simple tips to picking fonts

Picking fonts can be a frustrating affair. Rather than diving deep into the world of typography, in this video I want to show you two super simple steps to how you can pick fonts for your site, and have them look great every single time!

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[gabrielsales]

thanks. I'm not a designer and i'm always overthinking fonts without having any idea what im doing. Your video gave me a better idea on how to go about choosing them

[michaeloosthuizen]

Something to remember about using different fonts is that the elements that share that font should be logically related. So an event title and event price is an excellent example of a good relationship, an event title and then a link to a privacy policy would be a bad relationship.

[digigoliath]

Great topic!! I love Fonts but being a non-Designer, this area is where your tips & guidance will be most helpful.

[denniec]

Thank you Kevin. I love going back over your videos when I have to swap my developer hat for my designer hat when building a site.

[venturejay]

Subscribed and devoted. KP drops serious knowledge with each video.

[scarzix]

Great video. Its really helpfull for many webdevelopers to understand how design has been working before the internet. I was so lucky to start my web carrier in an advertisement agency, so I saw many beautiful designs and layouts from professional designers. Especially font size and line heights became very clear to me, Your videos about fonts will make the web become more beautiful, I hope. Keep up the good work!

[blonduose]

I was actually here for a more complicated take on typography :D, but I think I will get that in your course when I get to that module. However, this was very useful for the level I am at now, as I was too afraid of mixing fonts on my mini-projects.

[luiscolome]

I love the font series!! awesome video Kevin as always!! I love Comfortaa, Catamaran, Nunito and Roboto Slab.

[ciussky]

Choosing the right fonts is the hardest thing on earth :)) Thanks for sharing these tips. I personally like "Merriweather".

[joeldcanfield_spinhead]

I love my quirky Fortunaschwein, but my go-to everyday carry font is Josefin Sans.

[SoulStitch]

Frank Ruhl Libre. Balmoral was my preferred for wedding style font.

[womanmuffin]

This video was very helpful, thank you so so much!!!!

[lawrencerosen]

At long last - Kevin has written a decent starting point for this OTHERWISE intimidating and horribly-confusing subject.

[najmantube]

Graphic designers (who design web pages) have always told me that you should only use two fonts max. No doubt a graphic design wunderkind could use any number, but for mere mortals stick with two (max). Probably best to use only one :)

[nephi]

Hi! My favorite font is Arial. My favoritegoogle font is Roboto.

[duckdodgers]

I've always liked Pruisa this is mainly because it most closely matches my hand lettered Comics, is relatively easy for me to reproduce by hand, is open source, and it is on linux platforms like Krita which is what I use to make my comics nowadays. Of course if you don't have an exclusively linux based audience it does not work for a website, so I use the Kalam with google fonts for the bits of my website that aren't actually comics. It matches Pruisa fairly well and unlike most handwriting fonts has 3 styles.

[jordillobetpalau]

Thanks for your amazing videos. My favorite font is Montserrat

[BrinleyBlogette]

Do you have a short video about fallback fonts? Why they're important? Do designers on projects provide these? If not, then what's best to suggest? Free code camp always has us define fallback fonts but like, why? How is the navigated in the "real world" aka when you get a job lol. Maybe this is a silly question but I just want to prep for the real world and create good habits. I want to have answers for any little detail or at least know how to navigate these nuances in the real world. Maybe I could just google this lol but I trust your content now. Plus, if you need a short video or a quick video upload, this could be a topic, idk.

[ore_bear]

I think it´s easy to overthink fonts and think that the verdana, arial, roboto etc is so boring. But just because you as a designer think get bored doesn't mean that the normal user is...
And a good font is in most case a font that you don't notice, it´s not the font but the message that should be in focus. My favorite is Verdana.

[henrichsury]

Thank you for your videos. They are awesome