Appealing Fonts Make People Fall in Love with Your Web Design
Your website could be considered as your company’s golden treasure, more if its design and construction will be your livelihood. Wouldn’t you like to know how to achieve it? I’m sure you do. Come with me to give you some advices about your website design.
Texts represent close to 90% of a website. Yes, images and colors appear around the whole page, but written information fills most of the space. So, fonts you use in your site are quite important.
The best key I can give you about fonts and typography is: ¡make your content as easy and nice to read as you can! Accessibility and usability is everything in an effectiveness web page. Imagine someone visiting a site where things are a mess, ugly or difficult to use. I’m sure the person would leave the web page and fly to visit the competitor´s.
Think of this: What impression would you like your web site to make? Modern, serious, traditional, friendly, cool… This is the first step forward. Once you have decided it, keep in mind some tips:
- Make sure the font you use is easy to read on major browser and systems (Mac, Windows, Linux)
- Use common fonts. Experts suggest Arial, Frutiger, Futura, Gills Sans, Helvetica, Lucida, Optima, Palatino, Agfa Rotis, Comic, Trebuchet, Verdana, Times New Roman and Univers. However, some designers prefer San Serif Fonts (without serifs) because they are most legible, even in a low resolution.
- Don´t make people wear glasses! Sometimes bigger is better, but don’t overdo it. Big fonts are a good resource in headlines or titles. That’s appealing.
- Write in short lines and use properly word and letter spacing.
- Never use too many font types and sizes.
- Avoid narrow line spacing and not aligned blocks.
- Use property colors according to the background.
Never forget make your site simple, basic and easy to read. Visitors will thank you a great web design where they can enjoy. Always give the Internet users a reason to go back to your site.