Do you ever try to learn something but keep drawing blanks???
Yeah thats me and typography/fonts.
Yeah thats me and typography/fonts.
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Not an expert, but I've dug through quite a few fonts on some projects...
Currently trying to memorize and look deeper into font styles and maybe I can find the kind I want quickly if I get them down
The way I'd suggest looking at it is the same as composition weighting and line thickness in visual art.
Where are you trying to draw the reader's eye?
Some other choices are utilitarian - like does a capital i 'I' have serifs to differentiate it from a lower case L 'l'. Annoying.
It was invented for the Autobahn, so it needed to be legible at a distance, and simple.
...It's also in SIGNALIS; the chapter titles, etc.
Sorta just... Go by vibes, I guess.
Times New Roman is 'stuffy' but official feeling. Calibri is bland and inoffensive. Arial somewhere in between.