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Choosing great fonts for your website

Choosing great fonts for your website

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Choosing great fonts for your website

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- Fonts, so many choices, which ones are amazing and which one looks cheesy? How do you tell one font from another. Fortunately, there are four simple types of fonts that you'll encounter, let's go through each one of these individually and then we can talk about how to pair a font. The first type of font is the Serif font. It's called a serif, because of the little serifs that hang off of the letters. The original purpose of a serif, was to help align handset type hundreds of years ago, so the eye would have a clear line to follow when they were reading. Historically, serif fonts were used for long pages of texts like a book. However in our computer era, type is always clean and clear, so sometimes these serifs can get muddy on tiny screens in particular. Serif fonts are recommended primarily for headlines and large type on the web for this reason. Sans-serif are, well French speakers? Yes, fonts without serifs. These…

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