Feb
Fonts in web design
Filed Under (Usability) by Husein Yuseinov on 09-02-2009
Tagged Under : Accessibility, fonts, Usability
In contrast to “Web buttons, graphical mistakes” by ‘popular’ demand I have compiled a short article on choosing the best fonts for web design and staying away from those less appropriate ones. But before we even get into choosing fonts there are a couple things which should be understood with fonts in web design.
Make your font accessible.
Make sure that you use a font that was installed with your operating system by default. This will increase the chances that other people will have the font that is used on the web design as it was automatically installed on their computer as well.
In the beginning of the Web, the only typographic constant was Times New Roman under Windows and Times on the Mac. But even that wasn’t sure because the user was in complete control of the fonts they saw.
I learned this the hard way; I was showing my client his new site, only to have an ugly font replace my nice font because his computer did not have the font I used.
